Kline v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1956
8 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 People v. McBride · Claffy v. Chicago Dock & Canal Co. · Fleischman v. Walker · Myers v. Commissioners of Newcomb Special Drainage District · Boston v. Kickapoo Drainage District
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appeals may be taken from the final orders, judgments and decrees from either of the county or circuit courts to the Supreme Court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An act to give circuit courts of this State and the superior courts of Cook county, in term time, and judges thereof in vacation, concurrent jurisdiction with the county courts, in all matters pertaining to the organization of farm drainage districts and farm drainage and levee districts, and the operation thereof, and to repeal all acts in conflict herewith,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kreitzer v. Barnes
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.