Kurn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1984
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 Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. State · Kurn v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not reasonable to require the maintenance of a full-time agency station when the cost of such service is out of proportion to the revenue derived from that portion of the . . . public benefited thereby, especially where a substitute service may be provided which will afford the same essential service but is less convenient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowden v. State
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.