Kauffman v. Kebert’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1979
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Lesnik v. Public Industrials Corp. · Clark v. Sandusky · 25 F. Supp. 700 - United States Ex Rel. Foster Wheeler Corp. v. American Surety Co. · Hartwell v. Texas Consolidated Oils, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems that the applicants here are seeking a shortcut to a lawsuit. They have no interest in the main suit, not being bound by the result thereof, but it appears they desire to step aboard the present going lawsuit as a matter of convenience in the trial of their own case for damages against plaintiff. They have a right to bring a separate suit. This, however, should not be confused with the right to intervene.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Medd v. Westcott
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.