State ex rel. Lucey v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1983
2 district · 6 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 Nigro v. Flinn · State v. New York-Mexican Oil Co. · Swift v. State ex rel. Richardson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * (T)he familiar rule of statutory construction requires the consideration of the Act as a whole to ascertain its meaning, purpose and effect.” Terry, supra at 166 .”
1 later decision 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.