Kirk v. Smith ex dem. Penn’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 241 · 1824
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Knox County v. Harshman (1890), Dent v. Ferguson (1889)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Ricard v. Williams · Barr v. Gratz's heirs · Blight's v. Rochester · McClung v. Ross
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would shock that sense of right which must be 'felt equally by legislators and judges, if a possession ¡which was .permissive, and entirely consistent with the title of another, should silently bar that title. • Several cases have been decided in this court in which the principle seems to have been considered as generally acknowledged; and in the state of Pennsylvania particularly it has been expressly recognized. _ To allow a different construction would be to make the statute of limitations a statute for the encouragement of fraud — a statute to enable one man to steal the title of another by professing to hold under it. No laws admit of such construction.””
3 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.