Luhrs v. . Eimer’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1931
19 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.
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.
““The fourth section declares that if any ‘alien resident,’ who has taken- or shall take a conveyance of lands, has died or shall die, leaving persons, ' who, according to the statutes of this state, answer the description of heirs, such persons, whether citizens or aliens, shall be capable of taking and-holding as heirs of the ‘deceased alien,’ etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Callahan v. O'Brien
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.