Maxwell v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 210 · 1850
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1981 · most notably Speidel v. Henrici (1887), Hays v. Port of Seattle (1920)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Isaac Bowman v. Athanasius Wathen · Pease v. Howard
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . proper rule of pleading would seem to be, that, when the ease stated by the bill appears to be one in which a court of equity will refuse its aid, the defendant should be permitted to resist it by demurrer. ... 'If the case of the plaintiff as stated in the bill will not entitle him to a decree, the judgment of the court may be required on demurrer whether the defendant ought to be compelled to answer the bill’ . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Polk Co. v. Glover““If the case of the plaintiff, as stated in the bill, will not entitle him to a decree, the judgment of the court may be required by demurrer, whether the defendant ought to be compelled to answer the bill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olden v. Hubbard“to save the parties from useless expense and trouble in bringing it [a suit] to issue. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Polk Co. v. Glover
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.