Manley v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1967
1 federal appellate · 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 Board of Commissioners v. Taylor · Millikin v. County of Edgar · Wait v. . Ray · Webb v. County of Spokane · Board of Commissioners v. Shields
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These cases all rest upon the ground either that the particular contract under consideration was beyond the power of any board to make, or that it extended beyond the time when the particular board would go out of existence, and was against public policy because it deprived the succeeding board of the power to perform the duties which were imposed upon it by law.””
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.