Looper v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2001
7 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Pension acts should be -liberally construed in favor of those to be benefited. The rule is stated in 43 C. J. 813, § 1408, as follows: 'Like other pension laws, pension acts applicable to members of the police force will be liberally construed.’ Again in § 1493, the rule is stated: 'As in the case of other statutes, pension acts applicable to firemen should be construed to give force and effect to the legislative intent as embodied therein. The purpose of the acts being regarded as beneficial, they should be liberally construed in favor of those to be benefited.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kerr v. Murphy
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.