Neff v. George’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese (1984), 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe (2005)
3 federal appellate · 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 The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · Prall v. Burckhartt · Heidenreich v. Bremner · Winn v. Blackman · Isenburg v. Martin
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expresses the policy of the courts to stand by precedents and not to disturb settled points.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.