Kelly v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 6 · 1916
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Collins v. Loisel (1922), Factor v. Laubenheimer (1933)
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Rauscher · Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · Charlton v. Kelly · Wititaker Wright v. William Henkel
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But merely to be declared free in a room with the marshal standing at the door having another warrant in his hand would be an empty form. We are of opinion that in the circumstances of this case. . . the omission of a formal act of release and a subsequent arrest. . . furnishes no ground for discharging the appellant upon habeas corpus."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“perjury, obtaining money by false pretenses, and, co-jointly, stealing or embezzling and unlawfully receiving money and other property of the King which had been embezzled, stolen or fraudulently obtained by means of a conspiracy....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is enough if the particular variety [of conduct] was criminal in both jurisdictions.”
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.