Ex Parte Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably L. Maxcy, Inc. v. Mayo (1931), Conner v. Joe Hatton, Inc. (1968)
51 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 J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis Co. · Florida v. Mellon · State v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Bailey v. Van Pelt
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has at times given its opinion concerning matters of great importance involving important principles of constitutional law affecting the powers and duties of public officials, even though a decision on the constitutional points in the particular case was unnecessary to dispose of it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the power to enact a law closing fresh waters in the county for a certain season is not delegated to the county commissioners, because the declaration of the policy of a closed season is found in the terms of the statute itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“closed season on the taking of fresh-water fish ... in waters lying in two or more counties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.