Kearney v. Clutton’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2018
6 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 Spooner v. Holmes · Hoffman v. Carow · Koch v. Branch & Crookes · Frizzell v. Rundle & Co. · Calkins v. Lockwood
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and sells it, paying over the proceeds, less his commission, he is liable, although he has no knowledge of want of title in the party for whom he sells, and acts in good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an auctioneer receives and takes the property into his possession”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.