Kerman v. Swafford’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2019
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 Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Maxey v. Quintana · 135 Ohio St. 48 - Holland Furnace Co. v. Trumbull Savings & Loan Co. · Roberts v. Piper Aircraft Corp. · Salitan v. Carrillo
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The nature of the property, the manner of its construction, and its intended use all go to show that it was the intention of the party who made the improvements that they should be permanent additions to the land_ Under such circumstances the articles, so attached, are presumed to have become a part of the realty.”
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.