Etchison Drilling Co. v. Flournoy’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Alabam's Freight Co. v. Hunt (1926), State v. Alden Mills (1943)
4 federal appellate · 42 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 51 La. Ann. 980 - Succession of Parham · Pratt v. Allen · Coguenham v. Avoca Drainage Dist. · Galveston, Brazos, & Colorado Narrow-Gauge Railway Co. v. Gross · 51 La. Ann. 914 - Hawley Down-Draft Furnace Co. v. Southern Chemical & Fertilizing Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A Constitution should operate prospectively only, unless the words employed show a clear intention that it should have a retrospective effect.”
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.