Lewis v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. Tampa Southern Railroad · 58 So. 2d 534 - Farish v. Smoot · 66 So. 2d 260 - Lewis v. Lewis · Alta-Cliff Co. v. Spurway · H. E. Ploof Machinery Co. v. Fourth National Bank
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there was no injunctive order in effect at the time Lewis pledged his stock on January 7, 1953, how could he have been said to have wilfully violated one?”
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.