Kelleam v. Maryland Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 377 · 1941
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 34 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 245 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Meredith v. City of Winter Haven (1943), Angel v. Bullington (1947)
125 federal appellate · 34 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKelleam v. Maryland Casualty Co. of Baltimore (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Penn General Casualty Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Schnader · Pennsylvania v. Williams · Pusey & Jones Co. v. Hanssen · Sutton v. English
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 245 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that a federal court of equity should not appoint a receiver where the appointment is not a remedy auxiliary to some primary relief which is sought and which equity may appropriately grant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Britton v. Green · Britton v. Green““In the last named case, Justice Douglas, speaking to the facts in that case, said that once the bill of complaint was dismissed no jurisdiction remained for any grant of relief under the cross petition. But in that case there was no jurisdictional basis for the counterclaim independent of the main action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A receivership is only a means to reach some legitimate end sought through the exercise of the power of a court of equity. It is not an end in itself.”
1 later decision 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.