Killmer v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1987
3 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 Federal Land Bank v. Smaagaard
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The very terms of the statute make it clear that the contract is terminated only upon the entry of an order to that effect. Until this order is made, the contract is not terminated. Here the order has not been made, and the contract is still in force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kosbau v. Dress
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.