Kendall v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1945
6 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 Nolan v. Otney · Palmer Oil & Gas Co. v. Blodgett · Vawter v. Newman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tendency of modern decisions is to ignore technical rules of construction in deeds of conveyance, as in wills, and to discover the intent of the parties; if that can be determined, to give it effect. (Palmer v. Blodgett, 60 Kan. 712 ; Vawter v. Newman, 74 Kan. 290 ; Nolan v. Otney, 75 Kan. 311 .) ” (p. 193.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyson v. Bux
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.