Kalb v. Feuerstein’s Empirical Analysis
308 U.S. 433 · 1940
Citation profile
232 federal appellate · 45 district · 210 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,007 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably O'Shea v. Littleton (1974), United States v. Kras (1973)
232 federal appellate · 45 district · 210 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Moore v. Dempsey
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 1,007 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is generally true that a judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction bears a presumption of regularity and is not thereafter subject to collateral attack,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not merely erroneous but ... beyond its power, void, and subject to collateral attack.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(o) Except upon petition made to and granted by the judge after hearing and report by the conciliation commissioner, the following proceedings shall not be instituted, or if instituted at any time prior to the filing of a petition under this section, shall not be maintained, in any court or otherwise, against the farmer or his property, at any time after the filing of the petition under this section, and prior to the confirmation or other disposition of the composition or extension proposal by the court: .....”
2 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.