Jordan v. Landis’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Porter v. Baynard Porter v. Union Trust Co. (1946), Shattuck v. Wood Memorial Home, Inc. (1946)
22 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 Landram v. Jordan · Carter v. Balfour's Adm'r · Merchant v. Oakland Red Cross Society · Missouri Historical Society v. Academy of Science · Montgomery v. Carlton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Said property has, since the creation of the trust, always been publicly and notoriously used and actually occupied and well known as a negro industrial school, and exists for no other purpose.”
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.