Kirk v. Mattier’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2005
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Wardell v. Watson · Boone v. Stover · Ellis v. Kyger · Avery v. Kansas City & Southern Railroad · O'Brien v. Wagner
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no hesitancy in holding that, this instrument was a lease and that in a proper ease ejectment will lie for the land, and the estate acquired thereby. Ejectment will lie for .any corporeal hereditament of which the sheriff can deliver possession.””
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.