Sontag v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1951
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on County of San Diego v. Childs · In Re the Estate of Gilbert · Hicks v. Dowdy · Sorensen v. Hall · Wright v. Ross
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been repeatedly held that where a conclusion reached in a decision has been settled by long acquiescence on the part of the legislature and the courts, it will ordinarily not be disturbed, even if its soundness is doubted.””
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.