In re Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
26 F. 852 · 1886
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1978
5 federal appellate ·
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 William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · Justices v. Murray
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a violation of the spirit, if not of the letter, of the treaty,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hooker v. Klein
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.