Steele v. Kinkle’s Empirical Analysis
1842
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1997
1 district · 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[B]y inquiry, [the city] could have ascertained [the title’s] condition; [its] failure to do so, is chargeable only on [itself], and is a want of that common or ordinary diligence, which a Court of Chancery always requires, in cases like the present, before its aid can be obtained.””
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.