Lefebvre v. Callaghan’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2006
13 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 Gleeson v. Virginia Midland Railroad · Gleeson v. Virginia Midland Ry Co · 39 Tex. Civ. App. 195 - Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Boyce · Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Ramey · Sloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Mitchell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All balances, which may be available in the General Fund, after distributing the credits therein for the purposes and in the manner provided by law, shall be for use as credits' to an emergency fund for State purposes, to the amount which may be necessary to meet contingencies and emergencies as defined in this Section. In the event of invasions, riots or insurrections, epidemics of disease, acts of God Avhich result in invasion, damage or disaster to the works, buildings or property of the State, or, which menace the health, lives or property of any considerable number of persons in any community of the State, and confined to contingencies as to which no other funds are appropriated, or in the event, appropriations have been made for similar contingencies, then, confined to amounts which may be necessary in addition to such appropriation, to meet the emergency in each case, the Governor of the State may authorize the incurring of liabilities and expenses to be paid from the emergency fund created in this Section. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The one definition is: “ ‘An act of nature which implies entire exclusion of human agency.’ “The other is: “ ‘That kind of force of the elements which human ability could not have foreseen or prevented, such as lightning, tornado, sudden squall or wind, and the like.’ ””
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.