Kline v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably Montgomery v. Crum (1928), Cullison v. Medley (1991)
30 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 Spade v. Lynn & Boston Railroad · Meagher v. Driscoll · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Ferguson · Beach v. Hancock · State v. . Rawles
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having reached the conclusion that an actionable wrong was done appellee by appellant’s wilful act, we assert that, as the law imports some damage, she was entitled to recover full compensation, which includes compensation for her mental suffering, even if there was no unlawful touching of the body and no physical injury. • While the current of authority supports the doctrine that there can be no recovery for mental suffering, where there has been no physical injury, in ordinary actions for negligence, yet that is not the law as applied to a wilful injury committed against the complaining party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warmelink v. Tissue““An attempt or the unequivocal appearance of an attempt, with force or violence, to do a corporal injury, and may consist of any act which shall convey, to the mind of the person set upon, a well-grounded apprehension of personal violence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warmelink v. Tissue
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.