Kipf v. Bitner’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Solomon Dehydrating Company, Incorporated v. Clarence R. Guyton, Central Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, and the Greyhound Corporation (1961), Plumb v. Burnham (1949)
2 federal appellate · 56 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 Gohlinghorst v. Ruess · Roby v. Auker · Arman v. Structiform Engineering Co. · Gutoski v. Herman · Thomison v. Buehler
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The law of Evidence has suffered, in its most vital parts, from an ailment almost incurable ... that of confusion of nomenclature. The term "admissions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An extrajudicial admission appearing in the deposition of a party taken before trial is not ordinarily final and conclusive upon him, but it may be competent and admissible as evidence in contradiction and impeachment of his present claim and his other evidence given at the trial, to be given such weight as the trier of fact deems it entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cain v. Killian
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.