Case v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
133 U.S. 21 · 1890
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Interstate Consolidated Street Railway Company v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1907), Irving Trust Co. v. Deutsch (1934)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 18 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 National Bank v. Matthews · Gold-Mining Company v. National Bank · Cowell v. Springs Co. · Covington Drawbridge Co. v. Shepherd
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * it is very clear that it [the court] will not make itself the active agent in behalf of the company in violating the law and enabling the company to do that which the law forbids.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The corporation, in order to be entitled to buy and sell, to receive and hold, the title to real estate, must have some statu tory authority of the state in which such lands lie, to enable it to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the plaintiff has no right to take the property, it is not injured by a decree of the court which fails to grant such right, although such property was fraudulently acquired by the defendant.””
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.