Lewton v. Hower’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1978 · most notably Baggett v. Davis (1936), Ward v. Allen (1942)
30 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 Ball v. Rawles · Eastin v. Bank of Stockton · Heyne v. . Blair · Fagnan v. . Knox · Sharpe v. Johnston
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but only a determination that there was probable cause to hold the prosecuted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contradicts the charge of malice in the prosecution.”
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.