Eversole v. Eversole’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2007 · most notably Loughran v. Loughran (1934), Crain v. West (1921)
62 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Riggs v. . Palmer · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Armstrong · De Graffenreid v. Iowa Land & Trust Co. · Collins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Carpenter's Estate
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * When the Legislature speaks within the limits of the Constitution, its declaration of public policy is conclusive. If a change in that policy is desired, application must be made to the Legislature, and not to the judiciary, whose function it is to declare the law, but not to make it. ’ ’”
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.