Keith v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 454 · 1878
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1990 · most notably Quern v. Jordan (1979), Poindexter v. Greenhow (1884)
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 Luther v. Borden · Barney v. Baltimore City · Horn v. Lockhart · Texas v. White · Tennessee v. Sneed
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Nations or States,’ says Vattel, ‘are bodies politic, societies of men united together for the promotion of their mutual safety and advantage by the joint efforts of their combined strength. Such a society has her affairs and her interests. She deliberates and takes resolutions in common, thus becoming a moral person who possesses an understanding and a will peculiar to herself, and is susceptible of obligations and rights.’ Law of Nations, sect. 1. ‘ ‘ Cicero and subsequent public jurists define a State to be a body political or society of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by their combined strength. Wheaton, International Law, sect. 17.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it was regarded- as simply the military representative of the insurrection against the authority of the United States.”
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.