Lewis v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
January 1964
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boyer v. Dye · 61 So. 2d 493 - Williams v. Board of Public Instruction · Hagerty v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 66 So. 2d 260 - Lewis v. Lewis · Day v. Norman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]t was not error to grant defendant's motion for summary decree before disposition was made of plaintiff's motion to strike portions of the amended answer and cross-bill. Not only is there no showing that this motion was ever noticed for hearing, but the decision first to hear and decide defendant's motion for summary decree lay well within the ambit of the court's inherent power to control its docket."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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