Combs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1945
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Large communities require more time for the transaction of judicial business than small ones, and if one court cannot do the business, there must be more created. And it is idle to say that the legislature cannot provide for such an exigency. It would be as absurd to say that the legislature could not create courts sufficient for the transaction, of the judicial business of the populous counties of the State, as to say that that body could not give more time for the terms of the courts for one county than another.””
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.