Keller v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably In Re the Tax Appeal of Hawaiian Telephone Co. (1980), Treloar v. Swinerton and Walberg Co. (1982)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 Rosado v. Wyman · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Kennedy v. Silas Mason Co. · Fleming v. Mohawk Wrecking & Lumber Co. · Isbrandtsen-Moller Co. v. United States
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.
“The Supreme Court of the United States said over 30 years ago: But summary procedures, however salutary where issues are clear-cut and simple, present a treacherous record for deciding issues of far-flung import,...”
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.