Penn Collieries Co. v. . McKeever’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably Tauza v. . Susquehanna Coal Co. (1917), People v. . Beakes Dairy Co. (1918)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 62 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPenn Collieries Co. v. McKeever
Relationships
Relies on Lancaster v. Amsterdam Improvement Co. · 11 E.H. Smith 159 - People Ex Rel. Armstrong Cork Co. v. . Barker · American Ice Company v. . Catskill Cement Company · Horton v. Davis
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the corporate continuity of conduct ... such as might be evidenced by the investment of capital here, with the maintenance of an office for the transaction of its business, and those incidental circumstances, which attest the corporate intent to avail itself of the privilege to carry on a business.”
2 later decisions 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.