Klepinger v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.2d 697 · 1944
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 1973 · most notably Manual De J. Gomez v. Jerry v. Wilson, Chief of Police (1973), William T. Bell and Margie Bell v. Tsintolas Realty Company, James Coates v. Ruppert Real Estate, Inc. (1970)
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 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 Rogers v. Bonnett · Rowe v. Colpoys · Fenstermacher v. State · Lee v. Lang · International Exch. Bank v. Pullo
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition to other jurisdiction conferred upon it by law, the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions has exclusive jurisdiction of civil actions, including civil actions against executors, administrators and other fiduciaries, in which the claimed value of personal property or the debt or damages claimed does not exceed the sum of $10,000, exclusive of interest and costs, as well as of all crossclaims and counterclaims interposed in all actions over which it has jurisdiction, regardless of the amount involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The only requirements under the existing statute are that the action be a ‘civil action’ and that it involve personal property, debt, or damages amounting to less than $3,000.00. 1 “The term ‘personal property’ covers choses in action whether they are legal or equitable and the words ‘civil actions’ are generally held to cover both actions at law and actions in equity.””
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.