State v. Kilburn’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Horton v. Meskill (1977), Miller v. Egan (2003)
67 state decisions — followed in 13 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 City of Bridgeport v. New York & New Haven Railroad · City of Hartford v. Mechanics Savings Bank · Rowan v. Sharps' Rifle Manufacturing Co. · State v. City of Hartford · City of Norwich v. Hubbard
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the door to any defense or cross-complaint germane to the matter in controversy . . . . A sovereign who asks for equity must do equity.”
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.