Hollenbeck v. Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1966 · most notably In Re Estate of Freshour (1959), Harkrader v. Johnson (1947)
24 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 Rishel v. County of McPherson · Samuel & Jessie Kenney Presbyterian Home v. State · Treadwell v. Beebe · Palmer v. Johnson · Knox v. Knox
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Indefiniteness of beneficiaries is one of the characteristics of a public charity or a charitable use.” 11 C.J., Charities, § 59b, 14 C.J.S., Charities, § 39.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since the case comes to this court on the pleading and written stipulation of the facts, this court may examine the record and determine the legal questions presented with the same freedom the district court could do so.” (p. 354. See, also, Durham v. C. C. & M. Co., 22 Kan. 232 , and Snuffer v. Westbrook, 134 Kan. 793, 795 , 8 p. 2d 950.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wollard v. Peterson
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.