Kenicott v. The Supervisors’s Empirical Analysis
83 U.S. 452 · 1872
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1965 · most notably Chicago Railway Equipment Co. v. Merchants' Bank (1890), State of South Dakota v. State of North Carolina (1904)
21 federal appellate · 6 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.
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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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 'A bonus is not a gift or gratuity but a sum paid for services, or upon a consideration in addition to or in excess of that which would ordinarily be given.’ "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If an election or other fact is required to authorize the issue of the bonds of a municipal corporation, and if the result of that election, or the existence of that fact, is by law; to be ascertained and declared by any judge, officer, or tribunal, and that judge, officer, or tribunal, on behalf of the corporation, executes' or issues the bonds, with a recital that the election has been held or thzt the fact exists or has taken place, this will be sufficient evidence of the fact to all bona fide holders of the bonds.”
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.