Humphrey v. Denney’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Nealis v. Baird (1999), Oglesby v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. (1992)
28 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 Hess v. Excise Board of McCurtain County · In Re the Request of Hamm Production Co. for an Extension of Time in Which to Protest Proposed Gross Production Tax Assessments Issued on July 21, 1981
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The goal of statutory construction is always to follow the legislative in-tent_ We presume the legislature intended what it expressed in a statute and the plain language will be followed without further inquiry.” (Citations omitted)”
2 later decisions 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.