Neilson v. Kilgore’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 487 · 1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1983
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relation of husband and wife is . . . formed subject to the power of the State to control and regulate both that relation and the property rights directly connected with it, by such legislation as does not violate those fundamental principles which have been established for the protection of private and personal rights against illegal interference. [ Baker's Executors v. Kilgore, 145 U.S. 487, 491 , 12 S.Ct. 943, 944 , 36 L.Ed. 786 (1892).] . . . [P]roperty rights . . . arising solely by reason of the marriage, are within legislative control.”
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.