Kivett v. . McKeithan’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2000
5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not recognize the doctrine which prevails in many of the states, that a part or even a full performance of the stipulation of an unwritten agreement for the disposition of an interest in lands, other than a lease not enduring more than three years (The Code, sec. 1743), exempts such agreement from the operation of a statute which declares it `shall be void and of no *Page 48 effect' (sec. 1554), while in such case we compel the restoration of moneys paid under it, and perhaps allow compensation for what has been expended and cannot be restored to the extent of the value of the benefit which the other party receives and appropriates to his own use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ebert v. . Disher
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.