Kirkpatrick v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1977 · most notably Bishop v. American Preservers' Co. (1895), Creighton v. Elgin (1946)
31 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 Nellis v. Clark · Tyler v. Tyler · Kirkland v. Cox · Howell ex rel. Jones v. Fountain · Miller v. Marckle
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the present case, if the facts are as the evidence offered would tend to show, the fraudulent transaction has been consummated _ to the extent of vesting the title in the plaintiff, and leaving the possession in the defendant. Here, according to the rules of law above discussed, they should be left.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Edwards
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.