Ewing v. Vernon County’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. James (1961), Hubbard v. Slavens (1909)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Lamar Water & Electric Light Co. v. City of Lamar · State ex rel. Rose v. Job · Pennowfsky v. Coerver · Scanlan v. Childs · State v. Taylor
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.
““Motions and demurrers seek different remedies. A motion seeks some order of court falling short of the dignity of a judgment; a demurrer raises an issue of law and seeks a trial and judgment on that issue.””
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.