King v. Forst’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
states following
February 2004
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Canron, Inc. v. Plasser American Corp. · Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins · Wallihan v. Hughes · Gilchrist v. W. Va. O. & O. L. Co. · Hunton v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he decisions of the highest court of a jurisdiction, interpreting the law of that jurisdiction, are controlling authority in the courts of all other States as well as in the Federal courts. This principle applies even where the construction given by the foreign court to its law is directly opposite to the construction the domestic court gives to its own law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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