Kellogg v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank v. Alden (1929), Merchants' National Bank v. Greenhood (1895)
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wadsworth v. . Sharpsteen and Moffat
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I think the order of commitment is not conclusive evidence against the plaintiff in this action of his insanity at any time, .... The proceeding before the judge is only preliminary, and is analogous to the preliminary examination of a criminal charge by a magistrate.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The trustees shall reject all other orders or applications for the release or removal of any insane person, except the order of a court or judge on proceedings in habeas corpus.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Douglas v. Hall“the final determination[ ] as to whether the person committed is insane ... [was] to be made ... by the resident physician of the asylum”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Eschen
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.