Lester v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably First Union Nat. Bank of SC v. Soden (1998), Verenes v. Alvanos (2010)
34 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 Trist v. Child · 525 So. 2d 875 - Holloman v. State · 517 So. 2d 88 - Elliot v. State · Foggie v. CSX Transportation, Inc. · Creed v. Stokes
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to a trial by jury is guaranteed in every case in which the right to a jury was secured at the time of the adoption of the Constitution in 1868.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally, the relevant question in determining the right to a trial by jury is whether the action is legal or equitable.”
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.