Elder v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1982
15 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 Stephens County v. Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co. · Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Grays · Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Grays · Frost v. Standard Oil Co. of Kansas · Wood v. Tandy
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person who is an inhabitant of this State shall be sued out of the county in which he has his domicile except in the following cases: ⅜ ⅝ . ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ . ⅜ “14. Lands — Suits for the recovery of lands or damages thereto, or to remove incumbrances upon the title to land, or to quiet the title to land, or to prevent or stay waste on lands, must be brought in the county in which the land, or a part thereof, may lie.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A suit for accounting for the value of oil removed is, under said statute, a suit to recover damages to land.””
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.