Wilson v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 1946
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hessler v. Garner, County Judge · Rodgers v. Campbell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The publication and posting of a certified copy of the court’s order could be made no more effective or informing, as to the fact of the called election, by the sheriff’s affixing his own signature thereto. It is a certified copy of the court’s not the sheriff’s order that is directed by the act tp be published.”1”
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.