King v. Hyatt’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1960
8 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 Stark v. Barrett · Hardy v. Johnson · Croft v. Rains · Gray v. Givens · Barrett v. French
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While there is undoubtedly much conflict in the authorities, it is not so great as might appear from the language found in some of the cases. We think the rule quite well established, that one tenant in common may maintain an action of trespass against a mere wrongdoer and recover in his own name the whole damage, and generally that one cotenant may recover for any injury done by a mere trespasser or wrongdoer. Nor are we prepared to assert that cases may not arise in which one cotenant might recover possession of the whole property in his own name for the benefit of all. See Coulson v. Wing, 42 Kas. 507. . . .” (1. c. 514.) (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.