Kennedy v. Lonabaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1983
2 federal appellate · 1 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 McMullen v. Hoffman · Brooks v. Martin · Armstrong v. Toler · Armstrong v. American Exch Nat Bank of Chicago · United States v. Keitel
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the advances have been made upon a new contract, remotely connected with the original illegal contract or transaction, and the title or right of the party to recover is not dependent upon that contract, and his case may be proved without reference to it, then he is entitled to recover.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. Willis
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.