Kirmeyer v. Kansas’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 568 · 1915
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1988 · most notably Buck v. Kuykendall (1925), Central Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Mealey (1948)
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedState v. Kirmeyer
Relationships
Relies on Leisy v. Hardin · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Rhodes v. State of Iowa · William Austin v. State of Tennessee · Vance v. W. A. Vandercook 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we cannot conclude that ... a purpose to avoid the consequences of the statutes of the State suffice[s] to change the nature of the transactions.”
2 later decisions 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.