Tinkler v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1989
19 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 Meixell v. Kirkpatrick · Marske v. Willard · Eastern Kansas Oil Co. v. Beutner · Carr v. Catlin · Johnson v. Clark
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of lands situated in the state of Kansas may be brought in any county where the land or any part thereof is situate, or in any county where the defendant or any one of the defendants may reside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitlock v. Schoeb
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.