Keen v. Bump’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1977
20 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 Mayer v. Pick · Chase v. Dana
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power to confess a judgment must be clearly given and strictly pursued and a departure from the authority conferred will render the confession void. [Citations.] The warrant of attorney [in the instant case] was joint, being executed by the partnership and the individuals, W. E. Keen and E. C. Keen, and the purported confession was by W. E. Keen and E. C. Keen alone. A warrant of attorney which is joint does not authorize a several judgment but must be executed by joint confession against all the signers of the note, and the fact that the note is joint and several does not affect the question. [Citation.] The warrant of attorney was not executed in accordance with its terms”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holm v. Comm
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.