Romer v. Leyner’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably First Nat. Bank of Crossett v. Griffin (1992), Brady v. Alken, Inc. (1981)
25 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 American Exchange Trust Co. v. Trumann Special School District · Kempner v. Cohn · White River, Lonoke & Western Railway Co. v. Star Ranch & Land Co. · Boozer v. Anderson · Goodbar v. Lindsley
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attorney’s fees cannot be allowed as costs in suits, except as provided by statute, the same being regarded as a provision for a penalty and not to be enforced in the State courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brady v. Alken, Inc.
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.