Lemmon v. Herbert’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1991
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Mellen v. Moline Malleable Iron Works · Goodman v. Winter · Cox v. Thomas' Adm'x · Gibson v. Beckham · Morriss v. Virginia Insurance
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 court here had the power to decide whether the case made by the bill was within the jurisdiction of a court of equity, and, having proceeded in the case to a final decree, must of necessity have determined that question in favor of its jurisdiction. It may have erred in its decision, but such error would not avoid its decree. The decree would merely be erroneous, but conclusive until reversed or vacated. This court could not determine whether the case was one of equitable jurisdiction or not without an inquiry into the facts; and, where inquiry is necessary, a decree, however erroneous, is not void” (citing several decisions).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Browning · Jarrell v. Cole
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.