Watkins v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Heckman v. Marchio (2017), Commerce Savings Scottsbluff, Inc. v. F.H. Schafer Elevator, Inc. (1989)
39 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 State Ex Rel. Ebke v. Board of Educational Lands & Funds · Scottsbluff National Bank v. Blue J Feeds, Inc. · State ex rel. Johnson v. Consumers Public Power District · From v. Sutton · Ripley v. Godden
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * If the highest bid received shall be made by a person other than the lessee, the value of all the improvements on the land shall be appraised * * *. Improvements to be included in such appraisement shall be all buildings, * * *. The successful bidder, if he be other than the former lessee, shall within thirty days after the filing of the appraisement, pay to the county treasurer the amount of the appraisement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An unconstitutional statute is a nullity, is void from its enactment, and is incapable of creating any rights or obligations.”
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.