Laman v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1992
20 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 Andres v. First Ark. Development Finance Corp. · Kilroy v. O'Connor · Johnson v. Robbins · Updike Investment Co. v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Parties. — When the declaratory relief is sought, all persons shall be made parties who have or claim any interest which would be affected by the declaration, and no declaration shall prejudice the rights of persons not parties to the proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * fon0WS) therefore, since all parties who have an interest which would be affected by the declaration have not been made parties to the action, and as stated in Johnson v. Robbins, supra, [ 223 Ark. 150 , 264 S.W.2d 640 ] ‘that no controversy would be terminated by an adjudication not binding upon everyone concerned’, the decree is reversed.””
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.