United States Ex Rel v. Council of Keokuk’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 514 · 1867
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1996 · most notably Donovan v. City of Dallas (1964), Moran v. Sturges (1894)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 The Battle · Coy v. City Council of Lyons City · Beatty v. The State of Maryland
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Orders for an injunction issued by state courts are as inoperative upon the process of the Circuit Court of that district as they would be if directed to the process of a Circuit Court in any other district of the United States, because the state and Federal courts, in their sphere of action, are independent of any such control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Sturges
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.