Kelley v. Aarons’s Empirical Analysis
238 F. 996 · 1917
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1971
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Mueller v. Nugent · Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · Murphy v. John Hofman Co. · Scovill v. Thayer · Sanger v. Upton
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cause the estates of bankrupts to be collected, reduced to money and distributed, and determine controversies in relation thereto, except as herein otherwise provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Gill“if proceedings in bankruptcy had not been instituted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Gill
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.