Graham v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1969
15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prima facie presumption of rightful jurisdiction arises from the fact that a court of general jurisdiction has acted in the matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keen v. . Parker“The performance of a judicial act necessarily implies a court with both jurisdiction and discretion to hear and rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keen v. . Parker
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.