Keegan v. Kavanaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1935 · most notably Armour v. Hahn (1884), Illinois Steel Co. v. Schymanowski (1896)
69 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case, the evidence shows that Keegan, the laborer, was not without apprehension, but when one of his employers ordered him to go down, he did so promptly, upon the assurance implied in such an order that there Was no danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Scott
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.