Kilmer v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1970
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Dennison v. Ely · Long Island Rail Road v. Conklin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words ‘for a private road’ which precede the description of the premises, taken in connection with the covenant on the part of the grantee that the grantor, his heirs and assigns, should have free and full permit to travel the aforesaid road, have the effect to limit the general use of the strip' of land by the grantee so as not to deprive the grantor of the right reserved to travel upon the same. . . . It is quite clear that M. intended to convey this strip of land to W., retaining the right to pass over it, and that was accomplished by the construction which has been given to the deed in question.””
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.