Kimberly v. Arms’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 512 · 1889
Citation profile
369 federal appellate · 60 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 657 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor (1986)
369 federal appellate · 60 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Tilghman v. Proctor · Callaghan v. Myers · Quinby v. Conlan · Basey v. Gallagher
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 657 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t [was] not within the general province of a master to pass upon all issues.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oteri v. Scalzo · Davis v. Schwartz“appointed by the court to assist it in various proceedings incidental to the progress of a cause before it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the parties consent to the reference of a case to a master or other officer to hear and decide all the issues therein, both of fact and of law, and such reference is entered as a rule of court, it is a submission of the controversy to a special tribunal, selected by the parties, to be governed in its conduct by the ordinary rules applicable to the administration of justice in tribunals established by law; and its determinations are not subject to be set aside and disregarded at the discretion of tlie court.””
2 later decisions 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.