Bexar County v. Linden’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably Bennett v. Brown County Water Improvement District No. One (1954), Crane v. Texas (1985)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The use of the counties of the State as a means of government is a use by the State and for the State as a sovereignty. The effect of the statute, in association with other provisions of law is to set apart the excess fees of District Attorneys and other officials as State funds for the governmental purposes of the State with whose execution the counties, as instrumentalities of the State, are charged. Such a dedication is in no true sense a grant of public money. It is but an appropriation of funds of the State for the uses of the State. It is therefore a constitutional use, having no character of a bounty or gratuity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A principal State function which [counties] perform, in whose performance they exercise essentially State powers, is the administration of the State’s justice. Their local courts exist for no other purpose. Their local constabulary is to keep the State’s peace. They represent the State’s power in the different duties with which they are charged, and in the execution of those duties they exercise the State’s power for the common welfare. . . .”
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.