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← 171 N.C. 451 - Keith v. . Lockhart

Keith v. . Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis

1916

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
3
states following
February 2008
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2008

1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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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 Illinois Central Railroad Company v. McKendree · Fawcett v. Town of Mt. Airy · Burnett v. Mayor of Sacramento · Wilson v. . Jordan · Hutchinson v. Ozark Land Co.

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"[i]f by striking out a void exception, proviso, or other restrictive clause, the remainder, by reason of its generality, will have a broader scope as to subject or territory, its operation is not in accord with the legislative intent, and the whole would be affected and made void by the invalidity of such part."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “Even in a case where legal provisions may be severed in order to save, the rule applies only when it is plain that the Legislature would have enacted the legislation with the unconstitutional provisions eliminated.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.