Lopez v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2016
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Bergstein v. Popkin · Haines v. West · Burton v. Dewey · Ellis v. Stone · 26 Mo. App. 549 - D. M. Osborne & Co. v. Lawson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be for the benefit of and subject to immediate suit or action thereon by any person who shall sustain actionable injury * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“guaranteeing the payment to the public of all losses”
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.