Kelley v. McLemore’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2008
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 Pewitt v. Pewitt · State, Dept. of Highways v. Urban Estates, Inc. · Chumbley v. Carrick · M. Lewis & Sons v. Illinois Cent. R. · Huffaker v. Bowman
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.
“judgments and decrees obtained from and after July 1, 1967, in any court of record ... shall be liens upon the debt- or’s land from the time a certified copy of the judgment or decree shall be registered in the lien book in the register’s office of the county where the land is located.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n both cases, of realty and personalty, the [judgment] lien shall cease, unless a bill in equity, to subject such interest, is filed within thirty (30) days from the return of the execution unsatisfied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkins v. Marks“And it seems significant that reference is made to the fact that the hen shall cease, unless the provisions of Section 25-505 (now Section 25-5-104) are complied with. 560 S.W.2d at 77 .”
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.