Wadsworth v. Supervisors’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 534 · 1880
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1980 · most notably Norton v. Shelby County (1886), Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee
1 district · 9 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 William Aspinwall Joseph Alsop Henry Chauncey Charles Gould and Samuel Barbour v. The Board of Commissioners of the County of Daviess · Curtis's Adm'r v. Whipple
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No county shall subscribe for stock in any incorporated company unless the same be paid for at the time of such subscription, nor shall any 'county loan its credit to any incorporated company, nor borrow money for the purpose of taking stock in any such company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.