Vandercook v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1918
16 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 Shoultz v. McPheeters · Waldo v. Wallace · Wright v. Defrees · Elmore v. Overton · Pressley v. Lamb
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.
““It is probable, we think, that the contract or agreement set out in appellant’s complaint was executed by the parties thereto upon the supposition that its execution was authorized by the language used in . . . Section ■ 6416 . . . namely: ‘No person, other than the officials provided for in this law, shall be employed by the county commissioners to discover omitted property.’ We are of opinion, however, that this provision of the statute is not fairly open to the construction that the legislature intended thereby to authorize the county commissioners to employ any of the officials named in that law to discover omitted property, at an additional compensation to the compensation elsewhere given them by law for their services in the discharge of their official duties. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodson v. McCurnin
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.