Keshner v. Keshner’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Skidmore v. Johnson (1948), 132 Ill. App. 2d 544 - In Re Estate of Nelson (1971)
3 federal appellate · 45 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 Rothwell v. Taylor · Megginson v. Megginson · Wade v. Pritchard · Day v. Bullen · Sifford v. Cutler
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The proceeding may be merely for the purpose of obtaining information with no adversary aspects, or it may develop into an out and out suit for the recovery of money.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The proceeding is purely statutory and is neither at law nor in equity. It bears the equitable aspects of a bill of discovery, while at the same time providing for an optional jury as at law on demand of the parties, where questions arise concerning claims of adverse title or interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended to provide a comprehensive and summary means for the discovery and recovery of assets, or of their value if they have been converted.”
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.