Erwin v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Brownlee v. Williams (1975), City of Jesup v. Bennett (1970)
1 district · 41 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 Jackson ex dem. Scofield v. Collins
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wherever the intention of the legislature can be discovered, it should be followed with reason and discretion, though such construction should seem contrary to the letter of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The real intention, when collected with certainty, will always, in statutes, prevail over the literal sense of terms.”...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The law `does not favor a repeal by implication.'”
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.