Colbert v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2001
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The several judges of the chancery, circuit, and criminal courts which may from time to time be created by the general assembly are unquestionably state officers, elected and commissioned for state purposes; and their salaries must be wholly and entirely fixed by the general assembly, and paid out of the state treasury. The payment of these salaries is not a county purpose, and no authority can be delegated to any county court of the state, authorizing it to increase them, or to make any appropriation of county revenue for their payment.””
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.