Kisella v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1995
15 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 Berrendo Irrigated Farms Co. v. Jacobs · Hendricks v. Wichita Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · 21 F. Supp. 445 - Davis v. General Foods Corporation · Walling v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · 26 F. Supp. 359 - Mendola v. Carborundum Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]ith all of the rules of liberality prevailing in favor of a pleader, “The pleading still must state a ‘cause of action’ in the sense that it must show ‘that the pleader is entitled to relief’; it is not enough to indicate merely that the plaintiff has a grievance, but sufficient detail must be given so that the defendant, and the court, can obtain a fair idea of what the plaintiff is complaining, and can see that there is some legal basis for recovery.””
3 later decisions 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.