Cahill v. Leopold’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
7 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State v. Lamme (1990), Society for Savings v. Chestnut Estates, Inc. (1979)
7 district · 29 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
Applies 13 U.S.C. § 213
Relies on Williams v. United States · Lyman v. Adorno · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Cunningam · People Ex Rel. Carter v. . Rice · General Motors Corporation v. Mulquin
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] practical construction placed upon a constitutional provision immediately after its adoption and consistently and repeatedly followed ... for over a century thereafter is most persuasive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patel
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.