Kennedy v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1943
21 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 Holden v. Lynn · Garvin v. Harrell · Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Johnson · Rice v. Folsom · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hollis
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Very liberal rules of construction should be applied to pleadings in a justice of the peace court, and technical objections will not be allowed to reverse a judgment, where it is apparent from an examination of the entire record that no substantial right of the party raising the, objection could have been affected by the ruling, and where a reversal on that ground would tend to defeat the ends of justice.””
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.