Kittinger v. Rossman’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1977
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Forster v. . Scott · James Taylor v. Nicholas Longworth · Dresel v. Jordan · City of St. Louis v. Hill · Maryland Construction Co. v. Kuper
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And even when time is not thus, either expressly or impliedly, of the essence of the contract, if the party seeking a specific performance has been guilty of gross laches, or has been inexcusably negligent in performing the contract on his part, or if there has, in the ■ intermediate period, been a material change of circumstances, affecting the rights, interests or obligations of the parties, in all such cases, courts of equity will refuse to decree any specific performance, upon the plain ground that it would be inequitable and unjust. * * * But ’ in all sueh eases the court expects the party to make out a case free from all doubts, and to show that the relief which he asks is, under all the circumstances, equitable, and to account in a reasonable manner for his delay, and apparent omission of his duty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Texas Co. v. Herring
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.