Pepper v. Horn’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Lewis v. Martin (1923), Miller v. State Ex Rel. Peek (1947)
30 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 City of Birmingham v. Southern Express Co. · City Council v. National Building & Loan Ass'n · Allen v. Young · Parker v. Hubbard · Winn v. Dillard
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Special provisions relating to specific subjects control general provisions relating to general subjects. The things specially treated will be considered as exceptions to the general provisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herring v. Griffin
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.