Odom v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2007
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Standridge v. Martin · Robinson v. State · Herrin, Lambert & Co. v. Daly · Robertshaw Trustees v. Columbus & G. Ry. Co. · Gulf, M. N.R.R. Co. v. Brown
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a suggestion, once lodged in the minds of the jury, is almost certain to stick in their consciousness and to have its effect upon their verdict, regardless of any theoretical exclusion of it by the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Hicks
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.