Kitching v. . Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Clark v. State Street Trust Co. (1930), Easterbrook v. Hebrew Ladies Orphan Society (1912)
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKitching v. Brown
Relationships
Relies on Merriam v. United States · Clark v. . Devoe · Smith v. . Kerr · People v. . Richards · Duryea v. . Mayor
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any buildings- within, forty feet of the front of said premises except of brick or stone with roofs of slate or metal, and will not”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conlen v. Rizer“alley or entrance running through -them for ingress or egress to rear”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conlen v. Rizer
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.