Evens v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2007
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 Tulare Irrigation District v. Shepard · Stuart v. School District No. 1 · Finnegan v. Noerenberg · Schweigert v. Abbott · Mullikin v. City of Bloomington
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the organization was so defective as to be void in its inception does not change the rule. There is no room or place here for distinction between things that are voidable and things that are void. Neither the nature nor the extent of the illegality in organization can affect the application of these principles so long as the requirements above stated are met.” (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“private citizen having no interest distinct from that of the public,”
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.