Atkinson v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Steele v. J. I. Case Co. (1966), Trimble, Administrator v. Coleman Co., Inc. (1968)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Savings Bank v. Ward · Mills the President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Kansas Pacific Railway v. Mihlman · Cook v. . Soule · Miller & Co. v. Moore, Sims & Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had there been in the terms of the written lease some ambiguity or uncertainty, or some obvious omission, evidence of usage or custom would have been proper to explain the ambiguity or to supply the omission. But there is nothing in the language of the instrument that is uncertain or that requires explanation; nor is there any obvious omission that can be supplied by proof of usage or custom.” (p. 521.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is a rule of the law of damages that notwithstanding the fault of the other party the one who is injured in person or property will not be permitted to recover damages which might have been averted by reasonable diligence.” (p. 519.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swisher v. Beckett
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.