Kountze v. Omaha Hotel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
107 U.S. 378 · 1882
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 29 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 261 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Waterman v. Mackenzie (1891), Pusey & Jones Co. v. Hanssen (1923)
75 federal appellate · 29 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 · Jerome v. McCarter · Catlett v. Brodie · French v. Shoemaker
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 261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts of equity always bave the power, where the debtor is insolvent, and the mortgaged property is an insufficient security for the debt, and there is good cause to believe that it will bo wasted or deteriorated in the hands of the mortgagor, as by cutting of timber, suffering dilapidation, etc., to hike charge of the property by means of a receiver, and preserve, not only the corpus, but the rents and profits, for 1lie satisfaction of the debt.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the depreciation of the property in market value pending the appeal; or (2) its deterioration by waste, or want of repair, or the accumulation of taxes or other burdens; or (3) the use and deterioration of the property pending the appeal, that is, the rents and profits; or (4) the nonpayment of the costs of the appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff in error or the appellant shall prosecute his writ to effect, and, if he fail to make his plea good, shall answer all damages and costs....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.