King v. McLean Asylum of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Empirical Analysis
64 F. 331 · 1894
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Lehman Ex Rel. Lehman v. Lycoming County Children's Services Agency (1982), Dorsey v. Gill (1945)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Ex parte Lange · Royall · Cohens v. Virginia · Burrus · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So long as the judgment stands, it cannot be impeached collaterally in the courts of the United States, any more than in those of the state, by showing that if due effect had been given to the laws it would have been the other way. If it has the effect of an estoppel, as is claimed, it will continue to have that effect until reversed or set aside in some appropriate form of proceeding instituted directly for that purpose. The courts of the United States must give it the same effect as a judgment that it has in the courts of the state. Whether, as a judgment, it operates as an estoppel, does rfot depend on the constitution or laws of the United States, hut on the effect of a judgment under the laws of Missouri.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the power granted by the judiciary act of 1789, as remodeled by sections 751 and 752 of the Revised Statutes, goes to the entire extent of the jurisdiction which Congress could, under the Constitution, vest in the Supreme Court or the Circuit Courts, except as expressly excluded by other provisions of statute, and except as also necessarily excluded by the inherent nature of the courts themselves, and of the machinery given them by law with which to work out practical results.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clifford v. Williams“'When a party comes here, using the privilege of acting on the behalf and as the next friend of infants, it is his bounden duty to show that he really acts for the benefit of the infants, and not to promote purposes of his own.'”
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.