Keen v. Keen’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Bruce v. Dyer (1987), McCormick v. St. Francis De Sales Church (1959)
2 district · 58 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Pennington v. Fourth National Bank of Cincinnati · Thames Mersey Marine Insurance Company v. United States · Pease v. Rathbun-Jones Engineering Co. · Geary v. Geary
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he validity of every judgment depends upon the jurisdiction of the court before it is rendered, not upon what may occur subsequently.””
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.