Lee v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably Cearley v. Cearley (1976), Berry v. Berry (1983)
9 federal appellate · 76 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.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an employee files no such designation, death benefits will be payable according to the laws of Texas then in force applicable to the estates of deceased persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fain v. Fain
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.