King v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1986
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Pickens v. Oliver · Smyth v. Tankersley · Perminter v. Kelly
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This action, wbicli was an action in assumpsit for money bad and received, in its spirit and purpose, is likened to a bill in equity, and is an exceedingly liberal action, and will always lie, where a defendant lias in bis bands money which, ex aequo et bono, be ought to refimd to plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A record is proved by its own mere production and inspection, without more, whether of the original or of a copy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.