Skinner v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2012
2 district · 21 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 National Bank v. Burkhardt · State v. Mutual Life Insurance · People v. Brown · State v. Nagle · Cloyes v. Middlebury Electric Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not claim that the deposit slips were some sort of bill or negotiable instrument or that the' giving of the slips to the treasurer was the act of payment. We claim that the slips were only evidence of payment; that the real act of payment was the placing, of the money in the bank to his credit, and there subject to his check and order, and to no other person’s order or demand; that the acceptance and retention of the slips by the treasurer for at least 30 days, and some of them for as long as 53 days, and until the bank was closed, together. with the fact that he and the county clerk were treating and crediting the deposit as a public fund, is a final and complete acceptance of the payment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court is powerless to relieve the hardships that must result to this great number of taxpayers who believed when they parted with their money that their taxes were paid. But equitable considerations cannot prevail against statutory requirements, and the rights of the public to the collection of public funds in accordance with statutory rules is paramount to- the rights of individuals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That where any draft or check remitted to any county treasurer shall not be paid on presentation, any tax receipt issued to any such person shall be forthwith canceled by the county treasurer on his books, noting on his records that such receipt is canceled for nonpayment of the check or draft sent in payment thereof.” (R. S. 19-518.)”
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.