Sprowl v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 1959 · most notably State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. (1906), City of Chicago v. Gage (1880)
50 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 People v. White · Wilcox v. Smith · People v. President & Directors of the Manhattan Co. · Johnston v. Wilson · Green v. Wardwell
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well-settled rule, that when the words are not precise and clear such construction will be adopted as shall appear the most reasonable, and best suited to accomplish the object of the statutes; and a construction which would lead to an absurdity, ought to be rejected.”
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.