Cone v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1946
12 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether a dray is embraced within the meaning of the word ‘wagon,’ it is proper to look to the intention of the Legislature in giving the exemption, and no such restricted meaning should be given to it as will defeat that intention. ‘The intention of the Legislature was to protect all (heads of families) in the pursuit of their occupations, and a correct construction of the law would seem to protect the drayman and cartman in the possession of their vehicles, although they do nrft come within the strict definition of the word “wagon,” ’ ” and held a dray was exempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Malone v. Kennedy
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.