Pressley v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1949 · most notably State ex rel. Hovey v. Noble (1889), Commonwealth v. Shawell (1937)
33 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 Galpin v. Page · United States v. Ferreira · Dodge v. Gaylord · Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Dunlap · Potter v. . Merchants' Bank
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judge of the court in vacation is clolhed with exactly the same power and authority, no greater and no less, as is the court Itself when in regular and open session. * * * When the judge of a court in vacation Is engaged in doing these acts and making these orders, it is clear, we think, * * * that his acts, orders, and proceedings in the premises, although had in vacation, are the judicial proceedings of the court whereof he is judge. * * * in a legal sense, the judge of a court is the court. Certainly, there can be no court under our laws, constitutional or statutory, without a judge. * * * It is in this legal sense, we think, the words ‘judge thereof in vacation,’ so often mentioned in the sections of the Code before referred to, relating to receivers, should be taken and understood to mean ‘court in vacation.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.