Lonnecker v. Borris’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Faire v. Burke (1952), Eickmann v. St. Louis Public Service Company (1959)
38 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 Cruce v. Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad · Hungate v. Hudson · Dempsey v. Horton · Hilton v. Thompson · Norris v. Bristow
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The adjudication of that appeal and the questions presented constitute the law of this case and of this appeal unless the former ruling was palpably wrong or unless there is a substantial difference in the evidence and the facts upon the two trials. * *"”
2 later decisions 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.