Lawrence v. Fast’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1924 · most notably Hopper v. Lucas (1882), People v. San Francisco Sav. Union (1866)
2 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is certain to every ordinary intent, that the figures in the proper columns indicated cents, or dollars and cents. The most common man would so understand them, and could not be misled by them. The figures ‘ 2 48 ’ must of necessity mean two dollars and forty-eight cents, or two hundred and forty-eight cents, which is the same. Mills are never-expressed in that way. Courts of justice must draw the same conclusions from the same facts which the mass of community would draw from them. Taking the columns with their .headings, and the figures in them as they stand, can any reasonable man doubt that dollars and cents, or cents only, were intended? I think not. It is not certainty to every intent in particular that is required in such proceedings, but common certainty.””
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.