Lawler v. McCanless’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2001
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 Hancock v. Davidson County · Durham v. Dismukes · Colbert v. Bond · Biggs v. Memphis Loan & Thrift Company · Spurgeon v. Worley
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.
“The question for our determination is whether the amendatory Act of 1965 is local in form or effect and applicable to Gibson County alone' in its governmental capacity. 417 S.W.2d at 551 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Farris v. Blanton
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.