Kimball v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis
174 U.S. 158 · 1899
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1965 · most notably Poe v. Ullman (1961), Tyler v. Judges of the Court of Registration (1900)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Mills v. Green · California v. San Pablo & Tulare Railroad · Little v. Bowers · County of Dakota v. Glidden · Chicago v. Fosdick
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of this court,- as of every other judicial tribunal, is to decide actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions, or to declare principles or rules of law which cannot affect the matter in issue in the ease before it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““From tlhe necessity of the case, this court is compelled, as all other courts are, to allow facts which affect its right and its duty to proceed in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, but which do not appear upon the record before it, to be proved by extrinsic evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court is not- empowered to. decide moot questions or abstract propositions, or to declare, for the government of future cases, principles or rules of law which cannot affect the result as to the thing in issue in the case before it. No stipulation of parties, or counsel, whether in the case before the court, Or. in any other case, can enlarge the power, or affect the duty, of the court in this regard.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Panama R. v. Johnson
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.