Nations v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2007
15 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 Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Jones · Tietjens v. City of St. Louis · City of Joplin v. Jasper County · State Ex Rel. United States Fire Insurance v. Terte · Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Kellas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the declaratory judgment act, while it is to be interpreted liberally is not a general panacea for all real and imaginary legal ills, nor is it a substitute for all existing remedies. It should be used with caution. And except in exceptional circumstances plainly appearing, it is not to be used and applied where an adequate remedy already exists.'”
2 later decisions 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.