Kimberlin v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Tomb v. Bardo (1941), Hale v. Ziegler (1956)
6 federal appellate · 29 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 Franck v. Spencer · Miller v. Miller · Markham v. Waterman · Johnson v. Muller · Ritchie v. Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota Railway 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Usually the owner of an estate for years is the tenant of a landlord who owns the reversion and to whom a stipulated rent is payable. In such case the protection accorded to the landlord for injuries to the inheritance by the tenant is governed by the law of landlord and tenant. . . (p. 455.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘ “Abandonment” of property or a right is the voluntary relinquishment thereof by its owner or holder, with the intention of terminating his ownership, possession, and control, and without vesting ownership in any other person.’ ” 150 Kan. at 454 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Odell““A person seized of an estate in remainder or reversion may maintain an action for waste or trespass for injury to the inheritance, notwithstanding an intervening estate for life or years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.