Kirkman v. McClaughry’s Empirical Analysis
160 F. 436 · 1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1947
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Carter v. McClaughry · Blitz v. United States · Kurtz v. Moffitt · Martin v. Mott · United States v. Moore
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Where two sentences imposing terms of imprisonment are, in successive trials, adjudged the same offender, the second is cumulative, and may be, and — legally—is, fully executed upon the expiration of the term of the first.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mosher v. Hudspeth
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.