Kinney v. Harrett’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1918
12 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 Niles v. Ransford · Gamble v. Horr · Byrne v. Van Hoesen · May v. Calder · Magruder v. Peter
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If ejectment were purely a possessory action, there would be reason for holding that the guardian might sue in his own name. But in this State ejectment determines the title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ He shall appear for and represent his ward in all legal suits and proceedings, unless where another person is appointed for that purpose as guardian or next friend.””
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.