State v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1958
7 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 Briggs v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. · State ex rel. Weber v. Tucker · Latshaw v. McNees · 110 Mo. App. 561 - Shaw v. St. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern Railway Co. · McCarg v. . Burr
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule that, inasmuch as the justice of the peace has only such jurisdiction as the statute confers upon him the facts giving such jurisdiction must affirmatively appear on the face of the proceedings.”
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.