Duffin v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Lygrisse (1982), Froelich v. Adair (1973)
2 federal appellate · 11 district · 66 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 Anderson v. Rexroad · Wood v. Hatcher · Geier v. Eagle-Cherokee Coal Mining Co. · Fast v. Kahan · Darby v. Keeran
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In civil actions tried to the court the rules requiring expression of controlling findings of fact (K. S. A. 60-252 [a]) and controlling principles of law (Rule No. 116, 209 Kan. xxxviii ) are designed as an aid to the integrity of the decision. They are mandatory and should be fairly observed by the trial judge.” (p. 772, Syl. ¶ 2.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he intention of the parties and the meaning of the contract are to be deduced from the instrument where its terms are plain and unambiguous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The findings required by K. S. A. 60-252 (a) should be sufficient to resolve the issues, and in addition they should be adequate to advise the parties, as well as the appellate court, of the reasons for the decision and the standards applied by the court which governed its determination and persuaded it to arrive at the decision. These requirements are apparent in the statute itself.””
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.