Kerr v. Hitt’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably Lynn v. Allen (1896), City of Corpus Christi v. Jones (1940)
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Turney v. Chamberlain · Kellogg v. Carrico · Brooks v. Bruyn · Bauer v. Gottmanhausen
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Chicago Legal News is published in the city of Chicago, in the county where this proceeding was commenced; is published once a week; is devoted principally to the dissemination of legal intelligence, but makes reference to passing events, contains advertisements, brief notices of legislative bodies, personal and political items of interest to the general reader, as well as the legal profession. Thus it will be seen it comes, substantially at least, within the definition given by lexicographers of a 'newspaper/ It is none the less a newspaper because its chief object is the publication of legal news. Many newspapers published in this and other countries are devoted chiefly to special interests, — such as religious and political newspapers; others devoted exclusively to literature, — «that contain advertisements, news items, personal and political, brief notices of matters of special public concern, and reference to proceedings of legislative and other public bodies. So it is with this journal. Besides legal it contains other items of news, not only connected with the bench and bar, but others of a general interest. It is that class of journal that will circulate among lawyers, real-estate and other business men, for it contains information in regard to sales of real estate, whether under judicial process or under powers. Accordingly, its advertising columns contain notices of sales under trust deeds, on execution, judicial sales under decrees of court, and all manner of n”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynch v. Durfee
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.