Light v. Conover’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1925
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 Ewell v. Daggs · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. William Owens · Melchoir v. McCarty · Downing v. Ringer · Yount v. Denning
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was held that the lease of land on which the Hot Springs were situated being in violation of an act of congress was absolutely void, and that the ground rent for the use of the lands could not be recovered, and it was. further held that the lessee was not estopped from setting up the illegality.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Megreedy v. MacKlin
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.