Holt v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably Curry v. Woodstock Slag Corporation (1942), Camp v. Milam (1973)
45 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 Nettles v. Lichtman · Louis Pizitz Dry Goods Co. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. · American Employers' Insurance v. Glass · State v. Praetorians · O'Neal v. Turner
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * We can only learn what the Legislature intended by what it has said, and have no right `to stray into the mazes of conjecture or search for an imaginary purpose.'”
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.