Kerr v. Clampitt’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 188 · 1877
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1933 · most notably Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. (1933), Holmgren v. United States (1910)
24 federal appellate · 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 Casgrave v. Howland. · Sparrow v. Strong
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the new trial be*, asked for irregularity in the proceedings of the court, jury, or adverse party, or for abuse of discretion by which either party was prevented from having a fair trial, or for misconduct of the jury, or accident or surprise which ordinary prudence could not have guarded against, or for newly discovered evidence, the application must be made upon affidavits. * * ⅜ But whether the application be made upon affidavits, or a statement thus prepared, the rulings thereon, whether of the district court originally, or of the Supreme Court of the territory on appeal, are not subject to review by this tribunal. We have no jurisdiction to revise the action of an inferior court upon the question of granting or refusing a new trial, however meritorious the grounds presented for its consideration or erroneous its decision.””
2 later decisions 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.