Dilworth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2002
8 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 Sproles v. Binford · Smith v. Cahoon · Federal Trade Commission v. Raladam Co. · Cahoon v. Smith · City of Chattanooga v. Fanburg
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no general rule by which to distinguish reasonable and lawful from unreasonable and arbitrary classification, the question being a practical one, dependent on experience and varying with the facts in each case." Dilworth v. State, 204 Tenn. 522 , 322 S.W.2d 219 (1959).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estrin v. Moss
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.