Cannon v. Towner’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1997
15 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 People Ex Rel. Lodes v. Department of Health · People v. . Stephens · People Ex Rel. Peixotto v. . Bd. of Education · Jacobson v. Board of Education · Liebman v. Van Denburg
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an elementary rule of statutory construction, that when a definite provision is made with reference to one particular subdivision of a section of the law dealing with the identical subject matter as the other subdivisions thereof and a similar reference is omitted from the other subdivisions thereof as well as from all of the rest of the section, the particular reference is intended to apply solely to the subdivision in which it is contained and to exclude its application from all of the rest.” Cannon v. Towner, 70 N. Y. S. 2d 303, 312, 188 Misc. 955 (Supreme Court, Special Term, 1947).”
2 later decisions 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.