Kay-Noojin Development Co. v. Kinzer’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1989
24 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 Springer v. Sullivan · Southern Railway Co. v. Lewis · J. H. Burton Sons Co. v. May · Kirby v. Brooks · Nolen v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`An upper proprietor who collects surface water into a channel and casts it upon property of a lower proprietor to his damage, when if it were not so collected the water would be scattered and diffused, is liable for the damage though the property is located within an incorporated town or city.'" 259 Ala. at 55 , 65 So.2d at 515.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether or not by reason of that construction the surface water was changed from its natural flow and caused to be deposited on the complainant's property to his damage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.