Kurtz v. Moffitt’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 487 · 1885
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 28 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 375 later decisions (76 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Carroll v. United States (1925), Payton v. New York (1980)
115 federal appellate · 28 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 21 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Barbier v. Connolly · Ex parte McCardle · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Ex parte Siebold
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 375 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the common law of England, neither a civil officer nor a private citizen had the right without a warrant to make an arrest for a crime not committed in his presence, except in the case of felony, and then only for the purpose of bringing the offender before a civil magistrate. 1 Hale, P. C. 587-590; 2 Hale, P. C. 76-81; 4 Bl. Com. 292, 293, 296; Wright v. Court, 6 D. & R. 623; s. c., 4 B. & C. 596. No crime was considered a felony which did not occasion <a total forfeiture of the offender’s lands, or goods, or both. 4 Bl. Com. 94, 95; Ex parte Wilson, 114 U. S. 417 , 423.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a jurisdiction conferred by Congress upon any court of the United States, of suits at law or in equity, in which the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of a certain number of dollars, includes no case in which the right of neither party is capable of being valued in money.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) writ of habeas corpus, sued out by one arrested for crime, is a civil suit or proceeding, brought by him to assert the civil right of personal liberty, against those who are holding him in custody as a criminal.”
2 later decisions 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.