King v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2013
6 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 Ex parte Harris · John v. State · Ex parte Grant & O'Barr
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The approval of, or the refusal to approve, a bond ... by a justice of the peace, or other officer authorized to approve such bond, is a judicial act, and there is no principle more firmly established than that a judicial officer is not liable in damages....”); Howe v. Mason, 14 Iowa 510 , 1863 WL 157 , (1863) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly contemplates that the yearly rental value of the premises shall be fixed by the justice of the peace,”
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.