Kinney v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1993
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.
Relationships
Relies on Cave v. Cave · LeClert v. LeClert · 26 Ill. 2d 62 - Frey v. Wubbena · Menger v. Otero County State Bank · Allender v. Allender
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With respect to the Securities, the [trial] court found the facts to be generally as we have stated them. Most importantly, it also-found: (1) that due to plaintiff’s exclusive dealings with the Securities, there was no delivery of them from plaintiff to defendant; and (2) • that the registration of the Securities by plaintiff in joint tenancy did not manifest any intention on her part to make a • present gift to defendant, but only indicated her intention to have the Securities ■'pass to defendant upon plaintiff’s death. * i{i * if”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romero v. Melendez
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.