Clark v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 464 · 1882
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1951 · most notably In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co. (1895), Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works (1915)
54 federal appellate · 10 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 · Himely v. Rose · Keith v. Clark
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that question is no longer open in this case, for the reason that it has long been settled that whatever has been decided here on one writ of error cannot be re-examined on a subsequent writ brought in the' same suit. This rule was distinctly stated in Supervisors v. Kennicott, 94 U. S. 498 , where numerous authorities are cited; beginning as early as Himely v. Rose, 5 Cranch, 313 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chaffin v. Taylor
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.