McElroy v. Kansas City’s Empirical Analysis
21 F. 257 · 1884
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1977
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Johnson v. City of Parkersburg · Werth v. City of Springfield · Gottschalk v. C., B. & Q. R. R. · Chambers v. Cincinnati & Georgia Railroad · Mollandin v. Union Pac. Ry. Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation. Such compensation to be ascertained by a jury or board of commissioners of not less than three freeholders, in such manner as may be prescribed by law; and until the same shall be paid to the owner the property shall not be disturbed nor the proprietary rights of the owner therein be divested.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When the defendant has an ultimate right to do the act sought to be restrained, but only upon some condition precedent, and compliance with the condition is within the power of the defendant, injunction will almost universally be granted until the condition is complied with.””
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.