Kuehne v. Malach’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 1984 · most notably 103 Ill. 2d 302 - Cosmopolitan National Bank v. County of Cook (1984), City of Quincy v. Kemper (1922)
2 federal appellate · 36 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. Davis · Waters v. Waters · Gould v. Chicago Theological Seminary · Orser v. . Orser · Todd v. Todd
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A review of the testimony of Bettendorf [subscribing witness], as found in the record, shows it to be so unreasonable and on its face so contradictory, even without the Contradiction over his own signature found in the attestation clause, that we believe it does not present the true facts in many particulars.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lott v. Lott““While a subscribing witness is competent to impeach the due execution of the will, such testimony is received with caution and is rightly viewed with suspicion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lott v. Lott
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.