Lamons v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably City of Jesup v. Bennett (1970), Labovitz v. Hopkinson (1999)
32 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 Dade County v. State of Georgia · Cooper v. Rollins · Stegall v. Southwest Georgia Regional Housing Authority · Winter v. Jones · Wellborn v. Estes
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.
“`It is the duty of courts, to put such a construction upon statutes, if possible, as to uphold them and carry them into effect.'”
1 later decision 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.