Kierbow v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1990
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 Fredericks v. Tracy · Holly v. Heiskell · Kimball v. Redfield · Cameron v. Wentworth · Humpfner v. D. M. Osborne & Co.
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.
“It is essential in [a replevin] action that the property sought to be recovered be sufficiently described so that it can be identified by the officer serving the process, and a sufficient description given to enable the defendant to know what property he is charged with detaining, in order that he may prepare his defense to the action ... [I]t must be described with a reasonable degree of certainty, sufficiently definite to enable the property to be positively identified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.