Kendrick v. Colyar’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2006
18 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 McCarthy v. Nicrosi · Martinez v. Lindsey · Sparks v. Woodstock Iron & Steel Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘When the complainant, as here, showed by evidence peaceable possession by her of the land as alleged, and that there was no suit pending at the time of the filing of the bill to test the defendant’s claim of title, this made a prima facie case, and she was entitled to a decree adjudging defendant’s claim invalid unless he established a good title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDermond v. Hamby
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.