Randall v. Seemann’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Martindale v. Tenny (1992), Szoboszlay v. Glessner (1983)
50 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 Johnson v. McArthur · Lakeview Gardens, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. Schneider · Martin v. City of New Orleans · Thomas County Taxpayers Ass'n v. Finney · Diehn v. Penner
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have frequently stated it is the duty of the courts to decide actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions, or to declare principles which cannot affect the matter in issue before the court. Randall v. Seemann, 228 Kan. 395, 398 , 613 P.2d 1376 (1980); Burnett v. Doyen, 220 Kan. 400, 403 , 552 P.2d 928 (1976).” 229 Kan. at 270 .”
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.