Ralls County Court v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 733 · 1881
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012 · most notably Norton v. Shelby County (1886), City of Omaha v. Omaha Water Co. (1910)
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Loan Association v. Topeka · United States v. New Orleans · United States v. County of Macon · State ex rel. Wilson v. Rainey
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““'While the coupons are merged in the judgment, they carried with them into the judgment all the remedies which in law formed a part of their contract obligations, and these remedies may still be enforced in all appropriate ways, notwithstanding the change in the form of the debt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It must be con- ■ sidcred as settled in this court, that when authority is granted by the legislative branch of the government to a municipality, or a subdivision of a State, to contract an extraordinary debt by the issue of negotiable securities, the power to levy taxes sufficient to meet at maturity the'obligations to be incurred is conclusively implied, unless the' law which confers the authority, or some general law in force at the time, clearly manifests a contrary' legislative intention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quincy v. Jackson“.“It must be considered as settled in tbis court that, when authority is granted by the legislative branch of the government to a municipality or subdivision of a state to contract an extraordinary debt by the issue of negotiable securities, the power to levy a tax sufficient to meet at maturity the obligation to be incurred is conclusively implied, unless the law which confers the authority, or some general law in force at the time, clearly manifests a contrary legislative intention.””
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.