Kennedy v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1957
8 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 Harrison v. . Wilkin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They could no more prove in their defense that the cattle had never been in the possession of Kennedy than they could have introduced evidence showing Kennedy was the owner thereof and that the judgment in the replevin action ought to have been for him instead of Brown. In other words, they had no right to retry the issues settled in the former suit.” (Page 176.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.