Kaplan v. Tod’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 228 · 1925
Citation profile
187 federal appellate · 39 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 339 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei (1953), Jean v. Nelson (1985)
187 federal appellate · 39 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ng Fung Ho v. White · Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · United States v. Ju Toy · Chin Yow v. United States
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 339 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was still in theory of law at the boundary line and had gained no foothold in the United States”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blumen v. Haff · Zadvydas v. Davis
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.