Lane v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2009
5 federal appellate · 16 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 16 E.H. Smith 371 - Meigs v. . Roberts · People Ex Rel. Clark v. Gilchrist · People Ex Rel. Goring v. President & Board of Trustees · People Ex Rel. Dare v. . Howell · People Ex Rel. Village of Brockport v. Sutphin
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The City of Peeskill] has not by the special or local law ... changed in any manner any provision of law which fixes the form of county government of Westchester or the form or composition of any elective body. It has merely exercised its power to incorporate a city[;] and by force of the provisions of the general law which determines the form or composition of the Board of Supervisors, city officers become members of the Board of Supervisors and thus the number of members of the Board of Supervisors is increased.”
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.