Summerell v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 646 So. 2d 859 - Vallo v. Gayle Oil Co., Inc. (1994), Lemire v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (1984)
155 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 State ex rel. Civello v. City of New Orleans · 132 W. Va. 881 - Carter v. City of Bluefield · State v. Gatlin · Dore v. Tugwell · City of Shreveport v. Pedro
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellate court shall render any judgment which is just, legal and proper upon the record on appeal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Although several exceptions have been recognized, [footnote omitted] the general rule prevails that a litigant cannot raise the unconstitutionality of a statute or ordinance unless its unconstitutionality is specially pleaded and the grounds particularized. [citation of cases omitted].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Although several exceptions have been recognized, [footnote omitted] the general rule prevails that a litigant cannot raise the unconstitutionality of a statute or ordinance unless its unconstitutionality is specially pleaded and the grounds particularized. [citation of cases omitted]. "As a corollary of the above rule, it is also well accepted that a litigant who fails to plead the unconstitutionality of a statute cannot legally raise the constitutional issue in the appellate court."”
3 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.