Isbell v. Kenyon-Warner Dredging Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Continental Coffee Products Co. v. Cazarez (1997), Allied Finance Co. v. Garza (1981)
85 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.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule, to which this case appears to be no exception, is that, where jurisdiction is once lawfully and properly acquired, no subsequent fact or event in the particular case serves to defeat the jurisdiction”
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.