Kirby v. Estill’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1936
2 federal appellate · 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the court may not have erred in refusing to give the several special changes, In tile form they were requested, we think they were sufficient to call jhe attention of the court to file important matter embraced In them. On the case made by the evidence, wo think the court should have instructed the jury to return a verdict for the plaiutiff.” 75 Tex. 484 , 12 S. W. 807 .”
1 later decision 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.