Supervisors v. Kennicott’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 554 · 1880
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably United States v. Harris (1882), Lehnen v. Dickson (1893)
72 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Supervisors v. Kennicott · United States v. Eliason · Jerome v. McCarter · Burr v. The Des Moines Railroad and Navigation Company
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that in the judgment as entered it is stated that the court found the issue in favor of the plaintiffs; but that, when read in connection with the bill of exceptions, is no more than a declaration that the court found the law to be in favor of the plaintiff on the case as stated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to present questions of law alone for the consideration of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Baker
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.