18 Cal. App. 683 - Kinsell v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably Hunter v. Sparling (1948), Katsivalis v. Serrano Reconveyance Co. (1977)
26 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 Dougherty v. Nevada Bank · Neale v. Neales · Townsend v. Vanderwerker · Lowther Oil Co. v. Miller-Sibley Oil Co. · Freeman v. . Freeman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no evidence in the record rebutting the presumption that the amount recited in the deed as the consideration for the conveyance to plaintiff, viz., the sum of $10, was the sum actually paid by plaintiff to Joseph S. Thomas for the land and its improvements (13 Cyc. 613; Devlin on Deeds, § 817), and it must, therefore, be assumed that that sum was the amount so paid for the land. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Podesta v. Mehrten“The doctrine that verbal contracts for the sale of land, if part performed by the party seeking the remedy, may be specifically enforced,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.