Kendig v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 423 · 1878
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University (1908), Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n (1928)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Barney v. Baltimore City · House v. Mullen
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Suppose that the court had rendered a decree in the exact language asked for, * * * The court would find itself in the position of having made a decree it could not enforce, * * *»”
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.