Keener v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1990 · most notably United States v. Kansas City Life Insurance (1950), Happy v. Kenton (1952)
35 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 Abbott v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad · Goll v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co. · Consumers' Lignite Co. v. James · Anderson v. Inter-River Drainage & Levee District · Webb v. Carter
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“surface water is a common enemy which every man may ward off his land and thus throw it on an adjacent or lower owner, provided he does not, in warding it off, unnecessarily collect it and discharge it to the damage of his neighbor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.