Reitz v. Mealey’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1962
2 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 Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Hanover National Bank v. Moyses · Greene v. Louisville & Interurban Railroad
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the judgment creditor consents in writing that the judgment debtor be allowed license and registration, the same may be allowed for six months from the date of such consent by the commissioner and thereafter. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reitz v. Mealey
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.