Kelley v. Earle’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2001
17 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 Tranter v. Alleghency County Co. Authority · Commonwealth v. Moir · Sharpless v. Mayor of Philadelphia · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schnader v. Liveright · Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General v. Snyder
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is firmly established law that if current revenues are not overreached by an obligation incurred, that obligation is not a debt within the meaning of the constitutional prohibition * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.