Kelsey v. Hobby’s Empirical Analysis
41 U.S. 269 · 1842
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1969
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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.
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.
““There is no propriety in requiring technical and f'onnal proceedings, when they tend to embarrass and delay the administration of justice, unless they are required by -’Soane fixed principles of equity law or practice, which the court would not be at liberty to disregard.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perryman v. Woodward
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.