Faulk v. Kellums’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1952 · most notably Seymour v. O. S. Richardson Fueling Co. (1903), Meyer v. Village of Teutopolis (1890)
1 federal appellate · 34 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 Dow v. Rattle
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The rule is inflexible that in actions on contract against two or more, and all are served with process, judgment must go against all or none.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Condon
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.