Kimbro v. Bullitt’s Empirical Analysis
63 U.S. 256 · 1859
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1950 · most notably Armstrong v. American Exch Nat Bank of Chicago (1890), Allen v. Arguimbau (1905)
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Armstrong v. Toler · Winship v. the Bank of the United States · Weems v. McCaughan
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wherever the business, according to the usual mode of conducting.it, imports, in its nature, the necessity of buying and selling, the firm is then properly regarded as a trading partnership, and is invested with all the powers, and subject to all the obligations, incident to that relation.””
2 later decisions 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.