Kain v. Ashworth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1976
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 John Denn Lessee of Charles Scott v. Thomas Reid Jun · State v. Hayes · Potter v. Douglas County
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is not for the court to say, •where the language. of the statute is clear, that it shall be so construed as to embrace cases, because no good reason can be assigned why they were excluded from its provisions. We are unable to say why the benefits of this statute were given to those who held under deeds proved by the subscribing witnesses, and withheld from those whose deeds were proved by the acknowledgment of the grantor. In most eases, if not in all, proof by acknowledgment would be deemed more satisfactory than by witnesses; but, the Legislature having made a distinction between the cases, whether it was intentional or not, reasonable or unreasonable, the court are bound by the clearly expressed language of the act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The mere fact that a statute leads to results for which no good reasons can be assigned is not sufficient to justify the court in rejecting the plain meaning of unambiguous words. The absurdity which will justify a departure from such meaning can only bo predicated of an intent and a consequent conclusion, which could not be attributed to men in their right senses.””
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.