Whithead v. Keyes’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
March 2021
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Alexander v. Jameson · Buckminster v. Applebee
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n officer effects an arrest of a person whom he has authority to arrest, by laying his hand on him for the purpose of arresting him, though he may not succeed in stopping and holding him”
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.