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← 197 Kan. 98 - Meyer v. Benelli

Meyer v. Benelli’s Empirical Analysis

1966

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
3
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Johnston v. Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance (1976), 12 Kan. App. 2d 62 - Crooks v. Greene (1987)

45 state decisions

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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 Engl v. Ætna Life Ins. · Madokoro v. Del Guercio · Beall v. Hardie · In Re Estate of Freshour · Parsons v. Smith, Trustee

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"... A party cannot escape summary judgment on the mere hope that something may develop at the trial, or by remaining silent and later claiming additional facts supporting a defense.” (p. 100.)”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sade v. Hemstrom · Elrod v. Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance
  2. ““The judgment sought shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hastain v. Greenbaum
  3. “was simply seeking an interpretation of the provisions of the will under which both parties claimed title”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sutherland v. Sutherland Trust

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.