Lord v. Dunster’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2016
17 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 Searcy v. Grow · Saunders v. Haynes · Packard v. Richardson · Daily v. Swope · Appeal of S. O. Houghton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining the meaning of a constitutional provision it will be presumed that those who framed and adopted it were conversant with the interpretation which had been put upon it under the constitution from which it was copied, and this is the rule even as to provisions taken from the constitutions of other states,-the judicial construction placed upon them in the states from which they are taken will be followed by the courts in the state which adopts them.”
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.