Langley v. Boyter’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Davenport v. Cotton Hope Plantation Horizontal Property Regime (1998), Atlantic Coast Builders & Contractors, LLC v. Lewis (2012)
40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That issue must await the permission of [the supreme court] before a change in this basic, well-established law is brought about, unless the Legislature acts on the matter beforehand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.