Hadfield v. Kitzmann’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2021
6 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 Boyd v. Roane · Rankin v. Schofield · Moore v. Woodall · Glasscock v. Glasscock · Person v. Johnson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ There is also much evidence to show that the value of all five buildings would be materially diminished if three were divided in kind and the other two sold. The resulting separate ownerships would entail a loss of economy in management and would leave each proprietor exposed to the threat of rent reductions on the part of someone else. Without reviewing the testimony in greater detail, we think it sufficient to say that the Chancellor’s decision on the main issue is not contrary to the preponderance of the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Geary v. Kirksey
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.