K-B Corp. v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably McCormick v. AT & T Technologies, Inc. (1991), American Reliance Insurance v. Mitchell (1989)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Crandall v. Woodard · 4 Wash. App. 705 - Collins v. Boeing Co. · Johnson & Towers Baltimore, Inc. v. Babbington
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'it is the element of lawful possession, however created, and duty to account ... that creates the bailment, regardless of whether or not such possession is based on contract in the ordinary sense.'”
2 later decisions 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.