Kelso v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably Oviatt, Administrator v. Garretson (1943), Gillioz v. Kincannon, Judge (1948)
23 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Hess v. Pawloski · Truax v. Corrigan · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Wuchter v. Pizzutti
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Arkansas statutes require actions of this character, if against a domestic corporation, to be brought in a county where it has a place of business or in which its chief officer resides, and, if against a natural person, in a county where he resides or may be found; but they broadly permit such actions, if against a foreign corporation, to be brought in any county in the state. * * * “We think it very plain that the statutes discriminate against foreign corporations, and in favor of domestic corporations and individuals, and that the discrimination is not theoretical merely, but real and substantial. “The clause in the Fourteenth Amendment forbidding a state to deny any person within its jurisdiction' the equal protection of the laws is a pledge of the protection of equal laws * * *. It does not prevent a state from adjusting its legislation to differences in situation or forbid classification in that connection, but it does require that the classification be not arbitrary, but based on a real and substantial difference, having a reasonable relation to the subject of the particular legislation. * * * “The state court put its decision on the ground that venue is a question of' procedure which .the state, may determine * * *. “It of course rests with the state to' •prescribe thé venue of actions brought' in her courts. But the exercise of this power, as of all others, must be in keeping with the limitations which the Constitution of the United States places on state action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In other words, if actual notice to the non-resident defendant is provided for with reasonable certainty in the enactment, it will suffice to afford due process.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.