Knickerbocker Life Ins Co v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 339 · 1885
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2008 · most notably Dunlop v. United States (1897), Iowa Life Insurance v. Lewis (1902)
51 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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 Rosenthal v. Walker · United States v. Ross · Knickerbocker Life Insurance v. Pendleton · Lapham v. Almy
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact, too, of sending a letter to a post office will, in general, be regarded by a jury as presumptively proved, if it be shown to have been handed to, or left with, the clerk whose duty it was, in the ordinary course of business, to carry letters to the post, and if he can declare that, although he has no recollection of the particular letter, he invariably took to the postoffice all letters that either were delivered to him or were deposited in a certain place for that purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * His conviction and belief [that the draft was presented] were undoubtedly based on this custom and usage, and were of value only so far as such custom and usage were invariably maintained and pursued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“allows usage and the course of business to be shown for the purpose of raising a prima facie presumption of fact in aid of collateral testimony”
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.