Kerns v. Kerns’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2020
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · Massie v. Watts · Farmers Group, Inc. v. Williams · S. Utsunomiya Enterprises, Inc. v. Moomuku Country Club · Westfield Development Co. v. Rifle Investment Associates
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After filing any pleading in an action in any court of record of this state or in any district court of the United States within this state wherein relief is claimed affecting the title to real property, any party to such action may record in the office of the county clerk and recorder in the county or counties in which the real property or any portion thereof is situated a notice of lis pen-dens containing the name of the court where such action is pending, the names of the parties to such action at the time of such recording, and a legal description of the real property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“award[s]l the costs and attorneys fees associated with such an action to the prevailing party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The policy that successful completion of a suit involving rights in real property should not be thwarted by permitting transfers of interests in real property to persons not bound by the outcome of the suit continues in its full vigor. This policy would, be furthered by giving an expansive interpretation to the language “affecting the title to real property ” ....”
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.