Kellar v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1953 · most notably Superior Oil Corporation v. Alcorn (1930), White v. Johnson (1895)
26 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“££It has been repeatedly held that limitation does not, during the existence of the particular estate, run in favor of the tenant for life, against the owner of the estate in remainder, and, that being so, it would seem that an action to quiet his title might be maintained by the latter at any time before the termination of the life-estate; for it is difficult to understand how the right to quiet title, or establish a claim to land, may be barred by limitation, while the right to recover the same land may exist for an indefinite period afterwards.””
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.