Kilroy v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1964
11 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 Bard v. Kleeb · Installment Building & Loan Co. v. Wentworth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Judgments of law are founded upon general or special verdicts of juries, or findings of the court which take the place thereof. Without such verdicts or findings, there is nothing to support the judgment.” Kilroy v. Mitchell, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colvin v. Clark
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.