Kirk v. Lynd’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 315 · 1882
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1959
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Miller v. United States · Young v. United States · Armstrong's Foundry
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall knowingly use or employ, or consent to the use and employment of the same,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent to use or employ the same, or suffer the same to be used or employed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not to punish the owner for any crime, but to weaken the insurrection;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.