Purdy v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1985
12 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 Henderson v. Gladish · Lucas v. Futrall · Wood v. Miller · Hargis v. Hall, Secretary of State · Whittaker v. Watson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the contest was not instituted in the Court having jurisdiction of the subject matter, the demurrer to the complaint was properly sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Hickey
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.