Lang v. Dreyer’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2005
2 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 Gilbert v. . York · Shaffer v. . Riseley · Land Finance Corp. v. Jacoby · Levy v. Melody · Block v. Farley
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not bound to inquire into the proceeding leading up to the approval and the granting of [the] order, and [he is] justified as a ministerial officer in obeying it according to its terms. To [do] otherwise may ... render[ ] him liable as and for a contempt of court. Nor [does] he [have] the right to presume to act as a court of appellate jurisdiction to review the determination of this court.”
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.