Kimble v. Bunny’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1957
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Comes now the defendant, Henry Kimble, and for his answer to the plaintiff's petition herein, denies each and every allegation therein contained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caldwell v. Baxter“The affidavit shall be sufficient if it state that the affiant believes the facts stated in the pleadings to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caldwell v. Baxter
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.