Lane v. Katt’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
September 1975
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ambrose v. M. F. A. Co-Operative Ass'n of St. Elizabeth · Sullivan v. Holbrook · Schlanger v. Simon · 231 Mo. App. 469 - Gilbert v. Malan · In Re Alexander's Estate
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... In doing this we followed the time-honored principle that the purpose of rules of appellate procedure is to enable counsel and the court to get down to the hard-core issues of the case. This can be done only when the appellant's brief precisely informs the respondent and the appellate court just what those issues are. The rules must be enforced or abandoned, for when an appellate court does not enforce its rules it unjustly penalizes those who labor to obey them...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Cole
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.