Kinder v. Scharff’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably Person v. Person (1931), Stevens v. Allen (1916)
54 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 Cole v. Cunningham · Massie v. Watts · Hart v. Sansom · Carpenter v. Strange · Succession of Simmons
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such judgment as would be given in a new suit, to avoid circuity of action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“suited to the nature and justice of the case”
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.