Cunningham v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1953
12 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 Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · McCarthy v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Bagley · Culp v. Steere · Annie Service v. Farmington Savings Bank
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this state an action is deemed not to be commenced, for the purpose of interrupting the running of the statute of limitations, until a petition is filed which states a cause of action. A petition which is subject to a general demurrer is regarded, in this respect, as being no petition at all. (Railway Co. v. Bagley, 65 Kan. 188 , 69 Pac. 189 , 3 L. R. A., n. s., 259; Powers v. Lumber Co., 75 Kan. 687 , 90 Pac. 254 .)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kerr v. Carson
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.