Overton v. . Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2019
1 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is thereafter set aside or reversed on appeal or other ruling in the orderly progress of the cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilliam v. Sealey“a contrary verdict and judgment be given in a higher Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilliam v. Sealey
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.