Neal v. Gideon’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2015
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 Pond & Hasey Co. v. O'Connor · Dolman v. Kaw Construction Co. · McCleery-Dudley Lumber Co. v. Workman · Reed v. Thomas · Dettmer v. Fulls
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.
““ ‘It is the law that a debtor who owes two or more accounts to a creditor may direct to which account any money which he voluntarily pays shall be applied. It is also the law that when the debtor pays without directing to which of his accounts his payment shall be applied, the creditor has the privilege of applying the sum paid to either of the accounts.’ ” Neal v. Gideon, 157 Kan. 1, 4 , 138 P.2d 419 (1943), citing from Lumber Co. v. Workman, 105 Kan. 505, 509 , 185 Pac. 288 (1919).”
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.