Ables v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2003
13 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 Elston v. Wilborn · White Lick Quarterly Meeting of Friends v. White Lick Quarterly Meeting of Friends · Sanders v. Baggerly · Monk v. Little · Booker v. Smith
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are unable to say that these findings were contrary to preponderating evidence. Our cases hold that in a congregational church, the majority, acting as local church rules provide, represents the organization unless there is a departure from essential doctrines.” 6a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holiman v. Dovers
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.