Slaughter v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 1961 · most notably Ashland Transfer Co. v. State Tax Commission (1932), Continental Oil Co. v. City of Twin Falls (1930)
36 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 City of Monticello v. Bates · Julian v. Golden Rule Oil Co. · Standard Oil Co. v. City of Kearney · Marshall v. City of Dallas · Village of South Orange v. Heller
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A gasoline filling station, properly constructed, and properly operated, is not per se a nuisance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.