Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2005
1 district · 17 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 Hamilton v. St. Louis County Court
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.
““We must not commit the mistake of supposing that, because individual rights are guarded and protected by them, [constitutions,] they must also be considered as owing their origin to them. These instruments measure the powers of the rulers, but they do not measure the rights of the governed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Ulrich
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.