Sexton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1989
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Schlesinger v. City of Atlanta · Southern Railway Co. v. Combs · 29 Ala. App. 336 - Sexton v. State · State Ex Rel. McMaster v. District Court · Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co. v. City of Omaha
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a tautological expression, since all highways are necessarily public.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is the generic term for all kinds of public ways * * *, and the phrase”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.