McDonald v. Kelson’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1988
4 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 Howard v. Kennedy's Exr's · Stebbins v. Guthrie · Smith v. Pretty · Douglass v. Dickson · Coonradt v. Myers
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course, the adverse judgment in the ejectment action is binding upon the plaintiff and concludes him In respect to the title and- possession ineffectually defended in that action; but under many circumstances there may be a title and possession entirely distinct and wholly disconnected from that involved in the ejectment action, so that there is in fact no privity between the holder and the defeated ejectment defendant. In such cases the judgment extends no further than the title and possession which the parties were able to litigate; and if a person claiming separate, paramount and undetermined rights enter pending the ejectment action a writ of possession may not be executed against him.” (Page 109.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Ditlinger
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.