Laster v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2011
20 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 Donegan v. Wade · Shorter v. Sheppard · Steed v. Knowles · Beard v. Ryan · Calhoun v. Thompson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The assignments of error relate alone to rulings in the exclusion of evidence and exceptions having been reserved to each, a fair construction of the bill of exceptions sufficiently indicates that the nonsuit was in consequence of those rulings cumulatively.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Garrett
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.