Alexander v. Kuykendall’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably CaterCorp, Inc. v. Catering Concepts, Inc. (1993), Bostic v. Schaefer (2014)
5 federal appellate · 69 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 Cooper v. Cooper · Toler v. Oakwood Smokeless Coal Corp. · Miller v. Grier S. Johnson, Inc. · Jekshewitz v. Groswald · Morrill v. Palmer
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven though a motion for judgment or a bill of complaint may be imperfect, when it is drafted so that defendant cannot mistake the true nature of the claim, the trial court should overrule the demurrer; if a defendant desires more definite information, or a more specific statement of the grounds of the claim, the defendant should request the court to order the plaintiff to file a bill of particulars.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haga v. Blood · Chandler v. Routin“[a] void marriage confers no legal rights, and, when it is determined that the marriage is void, it is as if no marriage had ever been performed .... A voidable marriage differs from a void marriage in that it may be afterwards ratified by the parties ... and usually is treated as a valid marriage until it is decreed void.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of the fundamental principles in regard to fraudulent representations is that the false statement must be believed and relied on by the party to whom it is addressed, otherwise, however false or fraudulent the intent, the false statement does not constitute any ground for the rescission of a contract or action for damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. Carlin
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.