Kane v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 383 - Norgart v. Upjohn Co. (1999), 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. (1944)
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Troup v. Executors of Smith
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“They proceed upon the theory that the delay, for a fixed period, to assert one's claim, raises a presumption of settlement, and that a party ought not to be afterwards harassed respecting it.”
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.