DeWees v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2009
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Herman v. United States · 3 Cal. 2d 32 - In Re Johnston · Tennessee Publishing Co. v. Fitzhugh · State v. Smith · Pierce v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“securities laws “are remedial in character, designed to prevent frauds and impositions upon the public, and consequently should be liberally construed to effectuate the purpose of the acts.” Since the Tennessee Securities Act of 1980 was enacted with the goal of protecting investors, this Court’s primary concern is with the investors of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Casper“No agreement shall be deemed a conspiracy unless some act be done to effect the object thereof, except an agreement to commit a felony on the person of another, or to commit the crimes of arson or burglary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thorpe
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.