Freeman v. Keltner’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Montez v. Tonkawa Village Apartments (1974), Derrick v. Drolson Co. Inc. (1955)
4 district · 21 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 One 1946 Model GMC Truck Motor No. 23616447 v. United States · Federal Betterment Co. v. Reeves · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Moyle · Sage v. Oil Country Specialties Manufacturing Co. · Brock v. Francis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . It repeatedly has been held the various statutory methods for service on a foreign corporation are cumulative and a plaintiff may select any of them. (Betterment Co. v. Reeves, supra, p. 114; Jones v. Insurance Co., 83 Kan. 44 , 109 Pac. 1077 ; Nowak v. Insurance Co., 103 Kan. 778, 779 , 176 Pac. 654 ; Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Moyle, 162 Kan. 133, 139 , 175 P. 2d 133 .) See, also, reference in last cited case to G. S. 1949, 60-2522.””
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.