State v. . Lockyear’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1961
16 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Martin v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The corporate body, a legal entity, and the owner of the liquor, through its servant, the defendant, delivers it. to the purchaser at his call, and receives a fixed compensation in money therefor. The property in the goods passes and vests in the purchaser, and the money paid is received for and becomes the property of the club. Can there be any doubt that a corporation may make contracts, and deal with a corporator precisely as with a stranger, and valid obligations, capable of enforcement, be thus, formed between the parties?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Soule
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.