Ames v. State of Kansas Johnston Kansas Pac Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 449 · 1884
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 53 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 467 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Hans v. State of Louisiana (1890), United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936)
112 federal appellate · 53 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 27 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Cohens v. Virginia · Chisholm, Ex'r. v. Georgia · Meyer v. Construction 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 467 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all Cases ... in which a State shall be Party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`without regard to the character of the parties.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he argument would have great force if urged to prove that this court could not establish the demand of a citizen upon his State, but is not entitled to the same force, when urged to prove that this court cannot inquire whether the Constitution or laws of the United States protect a citizen from a prosecution instituted against him by a State.”
3 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.