Kirkpatrick v. Ault’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2017
2 district · 9 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 Clester v. Clester · Olson v. Peterson · Pricer v. Simonton · Manhattan State Bank v. Haid · Kirkpatrick v. Ault
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[w]here the grantor has divested himself of title, although by mistake he has not conveyed the title in the way in which he intended, he cannot b[y] a subsequent conveyance correct his mistake, there being no title remaining in him to convey.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`by mistake the words, Margaret Ann Ault and Alfred W. Ault were written instead of the words Margaret Ann Ault. . . .'”
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.