Security Trust Co. v. Lipscomb County’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably University National Bank v. Ernst & Whinney (1989), Systems Corporation v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (1982)
7 federal appellate · 45 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 Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Swift & Co. v. United States · Kneeland v. American Loan & Trust Co. · Fayerweather v. Ritch · Alexander Magruder v. Samuel a Drury
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold otherwise would permit [the State] to use the court in the attainment of [its] object by piecemeal, by first adopting its judgment as right, and then repudiating it as wrong, and to avail [it]self of the advantages of its being both right and wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless the record negatives the existence of facts that are essential to the court's jurisdiction, the law conclusively presumes upon collateral attack that those facts were established by the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the state becomes a party to a suit it is subject to the same rules that govern other parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.