Rust v. Newby’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1977
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By force of the presumption in favor of the constitutionality of statutes, the public and individuals are bound to observe a statute, though unconstitutional, until it is declared void by an authoritative tribunal. Beaver v. Hall, 142 Tenn. 416, 425 , 217 S.W. 649 ; Collier v. Montgomery County, 103 Tenn. 705, 711 , 54 S.W. 989 ; Speck v. State, [66 Tenn.] 7 Baxt. 46 , 51. Nor does it matter that defendant joined with plaintiffs to evade the statute and further the conspiracy as revealed by plaintiffs’ testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hoffman
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.