Kitchen v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Koberna (1965), Schears v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (1962)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Palmer v. Hoffman · New York Life Ins. v. Taylor · 147 Ohio St. 416 - Weis v. Weis · Allen v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Hoffman v. Palmer
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the patient's symptoms and complaints, treatment and progress records, diagnoses by those qualified to make them, the results of analyses and laboratory tests, X-rays, the behavior of the patient, and those parts of the patient's history inherently necessary (or at least helpful) to the observation, diagnosis and treatment of the patient.”
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.