George v. Kurdy’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1970
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Wooddy v. Benton Water Co. · Grant v. Huschke · Christensen v. Koch · Becker v. Clark · Mosley v. Donnell
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tract which was represented to contain one hundred acres was upon a knoll and hillside, and was of very irregular shape, and was covered with brush and small trees, ten or fifteen feet high. Of this, no reasonably accurate estimate of the amount of land which was susceptible of cultivation could be made without a scientific survey. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mackay v. Peterson
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.