Lasiter v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Campbell v. Wadsworth · Bruner v. Sanders · Cochran v. Blanck · Heliker-Jarvis Seminole Co. v. Lincoln
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... [It is the duty of this court, on the principle of stare decisis, to adhere to such [prior judicial] decisions although the court may be of the belief ... that such decisions are not sound, for when parties have acted upon decisions as settled law, and rights have been vested thereunder, their inherent correctness or incorrectness in the abstract is of less importance than that the rule of property so established should be constant and invariable."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Dicksion““Chapter 49 of the Laws of Arkansas (Mansf. Dig. entitled ‘Descent and Distribution’) controls the descent of land allotted to a member of the Seminole Tribe of Indians, not of Indian blood, who died on the 23rd day of August, 1903, after receiving his allotment.””
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.