Kirby v. Cramer’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2012
10 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 Stanley Manly Boys Clothes, Inc. v. Hickey · Moran v. Weinberger · Taylor v. Ottinger
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant in error insists that the taking of a non-suit on appeal to the Circuit Court constitutes an affirmance of the judgment of the General Sessions Court. That is to say that the voluntary dismissal of the cause of action in the Circuit Court somehow reinstates the judgment of the General Sessions Court. To reach such conclusion would require us to ignore T.C.A. § [28-1-105], generally referred to as the Tennessee inconclusive dismissal statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Katz v. Bilsky
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.