Kininmonth v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably Waldorf v. Waldorf (1948), Houdashelt v. Sweet (1947)
6 federal appellate · 31 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 · Barrett v. McMannis · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Conlon · Pee v. Carlyle · Phillips v. Carson
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.
““He may by himself, or with the heirs or devisees, maintain an action for the possession of the real estate or to quiet the title to the same.””
3 later decisions 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.