Leonard v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1974 · most notably State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Allen (1929), First Nat. Bank v. Smith (1928)
26 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 Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Ex parte Pollard · Lindsay v. United States Savings & Loan Ass'n · Williams v. Schwarz · Touart v. State ex rel. Callaghan
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . said amendment making the president and members of said board elective by the- qualified voters of said county . . . ” Senate Journal, 1919, Vol. I, page 1058.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parrish v. Faulk
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.