Kennedy v. Indianapolis’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 599 · 1880
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1999 · most notably Bauman v. Ross (1897), Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kan Ry Co (1890)
4 federal appellate · 11 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 Water Works Co. v. Burkhart · Rexford v. . Knight · Rubottom v. M'Clure · Nichols v. Somerset & Kennebec Rail Road Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]n this way . . . signified under the law their willingness to take as their compensation the benefits which would result to them respectively from the construction of the canal.” Kennedy v. Indianapolis, 103 U.S. 599, 604 , 26 L.Ed. 550 (1880).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“But, so far as we have been able to discover, it has never yet been held that the title passed*Out of the owner until ‘ just compensation ’ had actually been made. In fact the decisions appear to have been uniformly to the effect that it did not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweet v. Rechel“that no man’s particular services shall be demanded, or property taken or applied to public use, without the consent of his representatives, or without a just compensation being made therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweet v. Rechel
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.