Kitchen v. Rayburn’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 254 · 1873
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. (1933), Sturm v. Boker (1893)
23 federal appellate · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Rio Grande
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can never be exerted in behalf of one who has acted fraudulently, or who by deceit or any unfair means has gained an advantage”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“lend [the court's] power to assist or protect a fraud,”
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.