Steadman v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hill · General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. Department of Public Works · State ex rel. Meyer v. Greene · Ex parte Cowert · Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky v. Limestone County
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.
“". . . [whether] the object of the local law is to accomplish an end not substantially provided for and effectuated by a general law, notwithstanding there is a general law dealing with the subject or system affected by the local law." Polytinsky v. Wilhite , 211 Ala. 94 , 99 So. 843 (1924).”
1 later decision 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.