Sullivan v. Kidd’s Empirical Analysis
254 U.S. 433 · 1921
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 14 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Toscanino (1974), Santovincenzo v. Egan (1931)
28 federal appellate · 14 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Charlton v. Kelly · Geofroy v. Riggs · Boswell Blythe v. Florence Hinckley · Castro v. De Uriarte
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]reaties are to be interpreted upon the principles which govern the interpretation of contracts in writing between individuals, and are to be executed in the utmost good faith, with a view to making effective the purposes of the high contracting parties”
4 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.