Kentucky Union Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky No 22 Eastern Kentucky Coal Lands Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
219 U.S. 140 · 1911
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 9 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Grannis v. Ordean (1914), Untermyer v. Anderson (1928)
19 federal appellate · 9 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Fletcher v. Peck · Kring v. State of Missouri · Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · Terry v. Anderson
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' ‘ A time not unreasonably short for the beginning of actions may be fixed by the legislature, having in view particular conditions, without violating the due process clause. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Laws of a retroactive nature, imposing taxes . . . and not impairing vested rights, are not forbidden by the Federal Constitution”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“include retrospective laws of a different character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.