Gann v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Rudes v. Gottschalk (1959), Buckholts Independent School District v. Glaser (1982)
20 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 Compton v. Elliott · Gohlman, Lester & Co. v. Whittle · Terrell v. Middleton · City of Amarillo v. Tutor · Thomas v. Meyer
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, criminal statutes do not create civil liability, and since this Court has held that although a penal statute may be held void for lack of certainty, yet it has been held that it may constitute a rule of civil conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alviar v. Garza
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.