Whitaker v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1970 · most notably Dearborn Motors Credit Corporation v. Neel (1959), Wendler v. City of Great Bend (1957)
29 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 Lessley v. Kansas Power & Light Co. · Wahl v. Walsh · Southard v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n · Lee v. Beuttel · Simmons v. Gill
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A demurrer cannot serve to bring additional facts into a petition which might constitute a defense thereto. In ruling on a demurrer to a petition a court is not justified in reaching out and making additional facts a part of the petition. The inquiry is to be limited to the allegations themselves.” (Syl. IT 1.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Willmeth v. Harris · Force v. Bates
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.