Webb’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
August 2021
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Raines v. Byrd
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The municipality may plead and be impleaded in any court”
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.