Leonard v. Willcox’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably State v. Ahearn (1979), Ball v. Melsur Corp. (1993)
57 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Ex parte American Steel Barrel Co. · Ex Parte Cooper · Havemeyer v. Superior Court · In Re Rice December 17 1894 · State ex rel. Barnard v. Board of Education
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(i)t is not enough merely to show previous adverse rulings, no matter how erroneous, or numerous (omitting citations) ; or merely to show a judge’s expression of opinion, uttered in what he conceived to be the discharge of his judicial duty, based upon evidence produced before him.””
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.