Pfleiderer v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1966
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 State v. Bancroft · Coney v. Mayor of Topeka · Van Doren v. Wolf · Buffington v. Grosvenor · Kennedy v. Haskell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been said that ‘a cardinal canon of construction, to which all mere rules of interpretation are subordinate, is that the intent, when ascertained, governs.’ (State v. Bancroft, 22 Kan. 170 .) If a term is inappropriate or open to more than one meaning, we should look to- the context and give effect to the manifest intention of the legislature. ‘This (it has been said) is only making the naked letter yield to its obvious intention.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rausch v. Hill · State v. Close
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.