Lee v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1995
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Cancemi v. . the People · C. v. Floyd Fruit Co. v. Florida Citrus Commission · Jerome H. Sheip Co. v. Amos · Re: Estate Ollie M. Woods · Nelson v. Cowling
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`There has in times past existed some confusion in the law as to whether or not the doctrine of estoppel could be raised against the state, but as to the facts shown here, there seems no doubt that it may be done.'"”
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.