Edwards v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 1981 · most notably State v. Dyer (1947), Calvert v. Texas Pipe Line Company (1974)
89 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is for the Legislature to make the law, it is the duty of the courts to ‘try out the right intendment’ of statutes upon which they are called to pass, and by their proper construction to ascertain and enforce them according to their true intent. Eor it is this intent which constitutes and is in fact the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The intention of the Legislature in enacting a law is the law itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.