Gresham v. Ewell’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1934
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 Ex parte Lange · Cooper v. Reynolds · Ex parte Easton · Nelms v. Vaughan · Wade v. Hancock & Agee
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.
““ It is only when such entry is made that the law gives the authority; the jurisdiction and authority from any other source is merely self-assumed. The legislature doubtless had reasons satisfactory to that body when this provision was inserted in the law; for the provision, ‘ and it be so entered of record/ is an amendment to the former law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holmes
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.