Kitchen v. Bedford’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 413 · 1871
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1929
5 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instead of doing llils, as he was bound, he sold them to Bedford for six cems on the dollar. Bedford sold them to Webber at one hundred and fifty per cent, advance, both knowing the object for which Rayburn held the bonds. A clearer case of fraudulent breach of trust it is difficult 1:o conceive, and the defendants being particeps criminis, were bound to deliver the bonds and coupons to the plaintiff when he demanded them.””
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.