Lemons v. Shipman’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2011
2 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 Consolidated School District No. 1 v. Wright · Hazlett v. Board of Com'rs of Muskogee County · Henry v. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority · Berg v. Willibey
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Oklahoma Legislature, by the adoption of 47 O.S.1971 § 158.1, has to a limited extent removed the defense of governmental immunity traditionally recognized in this state. The new law permits suits against the state where a state-owned vehicle causes damages. However, this non-immunity to suit is specifically limited to the amount of insurance coverage on the vehicle.”
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.