Keith v. Alger’s Empirical Analysis
124 F. 32 · 1903
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1936
5 federal appellate ·
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 Paulina Whiting v. The Bank of the United States · Thomas v. Gabrielle Brockenbrough · Craig v. Smith · Kissinger-Ison Co. v. Bradford Belting Co. · Society of Shakers v. Watson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A bill oí review is a dernier ressort, devised to relieve a party who has suffered a substantial wrong from the miscarriage of justice in the former proceedings. And the inquiry deals with the state of things existing at the time of filing the bill of review.””
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.