Ervin v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2018
7 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 Ball v. Yates · 66 So. 2d 823 - Hahn v. Frederick
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are close, intimate, and personal friends, and have been for many years,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not legally sufficient to constitute a basis for the disqualification of the Justices ... but on the contrary are addressed to the conscience of the respective Justices[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The disqualification of the other two justices was sought on the ground that each was appointed by Governor Collins,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.