Lassetter v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably Taylor v. Brownell-O'Hear Pontiac Company (1956), Nettles v. Bishop (1972)
28 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 Louisville N. R. Co. v. Scott · Woodward Iron Co. v. Brown · Mobile Light R. Co. v. Nicholas · Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Swain · Partridge v. Forsyth
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Court of Appeals has concluded that, considering the entire record, this charge not only had a tendency to mislead but in fact did mislead the jury, and that the giving of such a charge justified the action of the court in granting a new trial. We are unwilling to hold that the Court of Appeals was in error in this regard."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitt v. Hulsey“charge restates practically in full the criminal statute regarding reckless driving, with the details of minimum and maximum punishment to be imposed, including the prohibition against further driving for at least six months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitt v. Hulsey
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.