Kennedy v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1997
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Seaver v. . Ransom · Lord v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · Matter of Kohler · Croker v. New York Trust Co. · Murray v. Blatchford
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whatever has been withheld from [the plaintiffs] as an advance not made should if it ever existed be found in the treasury of the corporation as surplus for distribution. . . . [I]f any one has illegally removed it from the corporate treasury or assets [the plaintiffs] may, by a derivative action compel its restoration.”
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.