Kinney v. Ensminger’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1957
19 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 Columbus & Western Railway Co. v. Witherow · Cannon v. Lindsey · Burroughs v. Pacific Guano Co. · Tedder v. Steele · Dawson v. Burrus
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The conclusion from the best authorities seems to be that the neglect must amount.to the violation of a positive legal duty. The highest possible care is not demanded. Even a dearly established negligence may not, of itself, be sufficient ground for refusing relief, if it appears that the other party has not been prejudiced thereby.” 2 Pom. Eq. Jur, (1st Ed.) § S56-, cited with approval in Kinney v. Ensminger, 87 Ala. 340 , 6 South. 72 , and Greil v. Tillis, 170 Ala. 391 , 54 South. 524 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gralapp v. Hill
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.