Kansas City Southern Ry Co v. Guardian Trust Co’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 1 · 1930
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 25 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012 · most notably Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society (1975), Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank (1939)
83 federal appellate · 25 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGuardian Trust Co. v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on In Re Peterson · In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd · Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co.
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Did the mandate of this court authorize the District Court to make any allowance in favor of the Trust Company on account of attorneys’ fees and other expenses to be taxed as costs between solicitor and client? The decree here affirmed required the ‘taxation of costs * * * under the principles, rules, and practice in equity.’ It undoubtedly covered ascertainment of amounts taxable between party and party. There was no specific reference to any additional allowance. The language used disclosed no intention to require more than the usual taxation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Papin v. Papin
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.