Lester v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably 31 Ala. App. 21 - Wilson v. State (1942), Dewberry v. Bank of Standing Rock (1933)
70 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 Georgia Cotton Co. v. Lee · Miller v. Whittington · Lamkin v. Lovell · Julian v. Woolbert · Little v. People's Bank
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““to give her an opportunity to explain what she did say and acquaint the jury of the nature and extent of her former examination. The plaintiff had this right and was in justice to be accorded the witness as to any apparent or inferential conflict in her two statements of fact under oath of the same subject-matter in the same suit.” (Emphasis added). 103 So., at 687”
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.