Jencks v. Quidnick Co’s Empirical Analysis
135 U.S. 457 · 1890
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1996 · most notably Union Nat Bank of Chicago v. Bank of Kansas City (1890), State of South Dakota v. State of North Carolina (1904)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
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 Burgess v. Seligman · Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company v. Cromwell · Bacon v. Northwestern Mut Life Ins Co · DeWolf v. A. & W. Sprague Manufacturing Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the construction of a state statute, we generally follow the rulings of the highest court of the state, Bacon v. Northwestern Life Insurance Co., 131 U. S. 258 , 9 Sup. Ct. 787 , 33 L. Ed. 128 , and cases cited in opinion; and, as' to other matters, we lean towards an agreement of views with the state courts, Burgess v. Seligman, 107 U. S. 20 , 34, 2 Sup. Ct. 10 , 27 L. Ed. 359 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““it is a case where equity, true to its ideals of substantial jusiice, refuses to be 'round by the letter of legal procedure, or to lend its aid to a mere speculative jit'.reliase which threatens injury and ruin to a large body of honest creditors,’'' etc.”
1 later decision 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.