State ex rel. Case v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2009
16 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 Little v. Bowers · People of the State of California v. San Pablo T R Co · Comer v. Bankhead · Lacoste v. Duffy · Cristman v. Peck
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . . 'The cause, in short, has become a moot case. There is no occasion or necessity for a judgment here, and no end to be accomplished by any judgment we might render, and we therefore decline to consider the case as now presented on its original merits. ( 143 Ala. at page 652 , 39 So. at page 215)”
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.