Kimmel v. Benna’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1949
17 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 Bogy v. Shoab · Sturdy v. Jackaway · Smith v. Sherwood · Jackson ex dem. Wright v. Dieffendorf · Valle v. Clemens
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judgment, except of non-suit, in an action authorized by this act, shall be a bar to any other action between the same parties, or those claiming by or under them, as to the same subject matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“but only shows that to make a judgment in ejectment conclusive of a title which has been investigated and decided, the nature of the action must be essentially changed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that after an experience of two years the common law rule was preferred.”
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.