Kibbe v. Ditto’s Empirical Analysis
93 U.S. 674 · 1876
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1992 · most notably Vandenbark v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. (1941), Beer Company v. Massachusetts (1877)
11 federal appellate · 7 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 Emerson v. Clayton · Trenary v. Cheever
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establishes a rule of property in Illinois, which binds the. courts of the United States and presents an insuperable bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bauserman v. Blunt“necessarily confers the power to do whatever is necessary to the effectual assertion and maintenance of that right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bauserman v. Blunt
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.