Butler v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 1961 · most notably Williams v. Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway Co. (1892), Verdin v. City of St. Louis (1895)
1 federal appellate · 47 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 State ex rel. Saline County v. Sappington · Dunn v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Horstkotte v. Menier · Wells v. Halpin · State ex rel. Polk County v. West
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.