Kohl v. Lehlback’s Empirical Analysis
160 U.S. 293 · 1895
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 19 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Price v. Johnston (1948), Davis v. United States (1973)
86 federal appellate · 19 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 21 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 McKane v. Durston · Ableman v. Booth · Cuddy · Wood v. Brush
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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The disqualification of alienage is cause of challenge propter defectum, on account of personal objection and, if voluntarily, or through negligence, or want of knowledge,such objection fails to be insisted on, the conclusion that the judgment is thereby invalidated is wholly inadmissible. The defect is not fundamental as affecting the substantial rights of the accused, and the verdict is not void for want of power to render it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““General allegations that the petitioner is detained in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States or of the particular state, and is held without due process of law, are averments of conclusions of law, and not of matters of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Winne“In any view, we cannot hold, on this petition, that petitioner has been denied due process of law, or that protection of the laws accorded to all others similarly situated.”
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.