Kinser v. Dewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2010
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 Aurora Fire Insurance v. Johnson · Cavanaugh v. Smith · Leeds v. City of Richmond · Street v. Chapman · Smith v. Jeffries
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and if [the contractors], in the construction thereof, unlawfully entered upon appellee's property, to her injury, [the contractors] alone are answerable therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neal v. Cure
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.