Lockhart v. Sasser’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably In Re Taxes of Johnson (1960), 139 So. 2d 704 - Vandiver v. Vincent (1962)
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Cowdery v. Herring · Smith v. Guckenheimer & Sons · McEwen v. Larson · O'Neal v. Miller
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record shows that the improvements on the homestead lot consisted of one apartment house containing six apartments one of which, comprising the ground floor, was occupied by the owner as his home. The entire house was under one roof and was not divisible by a perpendicular line without destroying or eliminating a part of that occupied by the owner as his home. This condition differentiates the case * * *.”
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.