Killian v. Ebbinghaus’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 568 · 1884
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 20 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Ball v. United States (1896), Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. (1939)
34 federal appellate · 20 district · 17 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 Felicit Fletcher v. Celine Babin · Lewis v. Cocks · Grand Chute v. Winegar · Parker v. Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton & Woollen 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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ that whenever a court of law is competent to take cognizance of a right, and has power to proceed to a judgment which affords a plain, adequate and complete remedy, without the aid of a court of equity, the plaintiff must proceed at' law, because the defendant has a. constitutional right to a trial by jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The bill is either a bill of interpleader or a bill in the nature of a bill of inter-pleader. It is clear that it cannot be sustained as a bill of interp leader. In such a bill it is necessary to aver that the complainant has no interest in the subject-matter of the suit; he must admit title in the claimants and aver that he is indifferent between them, and he cannot seek relief in the premises against either of them.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The general rule is that a party who has an interest in the subject-matter of the suit cannot filo a ‘bill of interpleader,’ strictly so called. In fact, the assertion of perfect disinterestedness is an essential ingredient of such a bill.””
1 later decision 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.