Kauffman-Harmon v. Kauffman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Stanley L. and Carolyn M. Watkins Trust v. Lacosta (2004), Stevens v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. (2010)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 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 Hansen v. 75 Ranch Co. · Rowland v. Klies · In Re Raymond W. George Trust · Fiedler v. Fiedler · Murphy v. Redland
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental principle of equitable jurisprudence that one who seeks equity must do equity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A party claiming that judicial estoppel bars another party from re-litigating an issue must show: (1) the estopped party had knowledge of the facts at the time he or she took the original position; (2) the estopped party succeeded in maintaining the original position; (3) the position presently taken is inconsistent with the original position; and (4) the original position misled the adverse party so that allowing the estopped party to change its position would injuriously affect the adverse party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accordingly, this Court will not aid a party whose claim had its inception in the party's wrongdoing, whether the victim of the wrongdoing is the other party or a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Klamert
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.