Keating v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably 26 Ill. App. 3d 574 - Cain v. AMERICAN NAT'L BK. & T. CO. OF CHICAGO (1975), Guntert v. City of Stockton (1976)
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Boreel v. . Lawton · Edgerton v. . Page · Royce v. Guggenheim · Skally v. Shuts · Hayner v. Smith
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order that any damages, which the defendant may have sustained thereby, might be recouped in reduction of the amount of recovery.”
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.