Lee v. Giauque’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Vincent v. Bullock (1939), Reagan v. Murphy (1958)
4 federal appellate · 106 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.
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * to constitute a single tract of land the lands must be so situated that one may pass from one part to the other without passing over the lands of another. * * *”
4 later decisions 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.