Lilly v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Matchen v. McGahey · JC Penney Company v. Barrientez · Bennett v. Robertson · Oklahoma Transportation Company v. Claiborn · St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to both plead the existence of such condition and to prove that he did not contribute to its creation.”
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.