Lee v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1962
5 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 Heery v. Reed
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not improper to admit testimony that certain work -was done and that certain material was furnished and used in the construction of the building which did not involve personal transactions or communications with the deceased. If the evidence given had shown that the work was done in the presence of the deceased and with her personal participation, there would have been grounds for the objection made.” (p. 330.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waltmire v. Badger
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.