Ex Parte Lowery’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2004
21 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 Maness v. Meyers · Bridgman v. Moore · State v. Mauritz-Wells Co. · National Life Co. v. Rice · National Life Co. v. Rice
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court cannot exist without a judge. But a judge is not the court, although frequently the words are used interchangeably. A time when, a place where, and the persons by whom, judicial functions are to be exercised, are essential to complete the idea of a court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alexander v. Russell · In Re Rose“The Court shall conduct its proceedings at the county seat of the county in which the case is pending, except as otherwise provided by law. ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ $ ‡”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"And the District Judges may exchange districts, or hold courts for each other when they deem it expedient, and shall do so when required by law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herrod v. State
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.