Scarbrough v. Eubank’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 1973 · most notably Trapp v. Shell Oil Co. (1946), Kuhn v. City of Yoakum (1928)
50 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but it is obvious that what is expressly demanded in the one instance is impliedly required in the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perkins v. Ingalsbe
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.