Lane v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1953
23 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 Bowers v. Smith · People Ex Rel. Smith v. Pease · 2 E.H. Smith 142 - People Ex Rel. Hirsh v. . Wood · Black v. Pate · Stackpole v. Hallahan
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.
“An appellate court will not reverse a judgment merely because the lower court committed error; it is only when the error has materially affected appellant's rights on the merits of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dubie v. Batani
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.