Kelly v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1964
16 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 Zinn ex rel. Zinn v. Updegraff · Lewis v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · Tawzer v. McAdam · McIntosh v. Standard Oil Co. · Balano v. Nafziger
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The difficulty we find in applying that rule to the instruction in question is that the allegations of the answer as incorporated therein were not short and concise but long and ambiguous — not plain and simple but intricate and complicated. Under such conditions we believe it is far better practice to refrain from giving instructions which include the pleadings in full. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haynes v. Hockenhull
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.