Lowe v. Tarble’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp. (2004), Virmani v. Presbyterian Health Services Corp. (1999)
2 federal appellate · 65 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 Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · Ferguson v. Skrupa · Munn v. Illinois · Exxon Corporation v. Governor of Maryland Shell Oil Company
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ay all expenses incurred by the company, all costs taxed against the insured in any such suit and all interest accruing after entry of judgment until the company has paid, tendered or deposited in court such part of such judgment as does not exceed the limit of the company’s liability thereon;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the right to grant relief against unreasonable and arbitrary state statutes under Article I, section 19 of the Constitution of North Carolina in circumstances under which no relief might be granted by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment .... Whether a state statute violates the law of the land clause “is a question of degree and reasonableness in relation to the public good likely to result from it.””
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.