Kimmish v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 217 · 1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1946 · most notably Leisy v. Hardin (1890), Crutcher v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (1891)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Paul v. Virginia · Railroad Company v. Husen · Packet Company v. Keokuk · Allen v. Louisiana
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case is therefore reduced to this, whether the state may not provide that whoever permits diseased 'cattle in his possession to run at large within its limits shall be liable for any damages caused by the spread of the disease occasioned thereby, and upon that we do not entertain the slightest doubt. Our answer, therefore, to the first question upon which the judges below differed is in the negative, that the section in question is not unconstitutional by reason of any conflict with the commercial clause of the constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““At the same time the court admitted unhesitatingly that a State may pass laws to prevent animals suffering from contagious or infectious diseases from entering within it.””
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.