Lawson v. Darter’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2005
13 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 Turner v. . City of Newburgh · Hughes v. State · Ballard v. Commonwealth · Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad v. Parker · Spencer v. Looney
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In matters of this kind which are not of common knowledge we much accept the opinion of experts. There is no other way in which an intelligent conclusion can be reached, and so evidence of this kind is competent unless it is palpably absurd, and it is not made incompetent by the fact that other experts may have reached another conclusion. Always it should be scrutinized with care, but the manner in which it is weighed has nothing to do with its admissibility.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Neal v. Spencer“we cannot as a matter of law say that he was wrong”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walrod v. Matthews
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.