Bryan v. Kennett’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 179 · 1885
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1974 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Williams (1935), Lynch v. Alworth-Stephens Co. (1925)
24 federal appellate · 12 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 The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · James Foster v. David Neilson · Webster v. Reid · Strother v. Lucas · Landes v. Brant
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to the settled principles of law, the plaintiffs are thereby estopped from asserting, in this collateral proceeding, any interest in the premises in controversy ad verse to that of the defendants. It is not subject to collateral attack, because there is nothing on the face of the record which shows any want of jurisdiction in the court that rendered it. It was and is conclusive as to all the parties to that suit, and their privies, until reversed or modified on appeal, or unless, in proper time, it had been impeached, in some direct proceeding, and set aside or annulled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Staley v. Espenlaub
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.