Kennedy v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 1964 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 133 - Oettinger v. Stewart (1944), Pauckner v. Wakem (1907)
6 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Kauffman v. Maier · Redigan v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Schmidt v. Bauer · Murray v. McLean
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of the owner . . . has relation to the object for which the right of entry is extended, and is limited to responsibility for the condition of that portion of the premises required for the purposes of the visit. It does not impose liability for the want of safety at a point without those limits, and where the injured party was neither invited nor expected to go.””
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.