Lenox v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 1942 · most notably Yarnell v. Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad (1893), McClanahan v. West (1889)
33 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 Capital Bank v. Armstrong · Barnes v. McMullins · Long v. Joplin Mining & Smelting Co. · Campau v. Van Dyke · State ex rel. Polk County v. West
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be the height of injustice to permit complainant, with full knowledge of the facts, to delay suit while the persons who were familiar with the facts were one by one passing away, and at last bring suit under circumstances which, at best, must leave the court in doubt whether the remaining evidence does not disclose a partial, defective, and misleading case. A court of equity ought to refuse interference under such circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Younger v. Evers
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.