Kelly v. Town of Milan’s Empirical Analysis
21 F. 842 · 1884
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1967
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Russell v. Place · Christmas v. Russell · Town of Coloma v. Eaves · Gould v. Evansville and Crawfordsville Rr Co · Claiborne Co v. Brooks
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In testimony whereof we herewith sign our names, and affix our official seal, this December 18, 1874. A. JORDAN, Mayor.”
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.