Strieb v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 1967 · most notably McCoy v. Able (1892), Quill v. City of Indianapolis (1890)
4 federal appellate · 33 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 Evansville, Indianapolis & Cleveland Straight Line Railroad v. City of Evansville · Board of Commissioners v. Markle · Board of Commissioners v. Hall · Baltimore & Ohio & Chicago Railroad v. North · Dequindre v. Williams
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.
““We are of opinion that the bonds issued by the board of commissioners of Grant county under the provisions of the section quoted, and pursuant to the authority thereby conferred, did not and do not constitute an indebtedness of such county, and did not and do not evidence an indebtedness incurred by said county, within the inhibition of article 13 of our state constitution. Such bonds are not payable by the comity, or out of the general funds of the county treasury. They are payable out of the particular fund to be raised by the collection of the assessments made on the lands adjacent to such free gravel road, ‘divided in such manner as to meet the payment of principal and interest of said bonds,’ and placed as directed on the tax duplicates against the lands assessed, ‘and collected in the same manner as other taxes,’ which fund, when so collected, ‘shall be applied to no other purpose than the payment of said bonds and interest.’ No other provision is made by law for the payment of either the bonds or the interest thereon; and the bonds and interest are made payable out of the particular fund to be derived from the collection of ■the assessments made on the lands adjacent to such free gravel road, and from no other source, and such fund is pledged by the statute for the payment of said bonds and interest. It is manifest, we think, from all the provisions of the above-entitled act of March 8, 1877, and the amendments thereof, that the, legislature intended that the entire c”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No political or municipal corporation in this state shall ever become indebted, in any manner or for any purpose, to an amount, in the aggregate, exceeding two per centum of the value of the taxable property within such corporation, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness; and all bonds or obligations in excess of such amount, given by such corporation, shall be void: provided, that in time of war, foreign invasion, or other great public calamity, on petition of a majority of the property owners, in number and value, within the limits of such corporation, the public authorities, in their-discretion, may incur obligations necessary for the public protection and defense to such an aipount as may be requested in such petition.” Const. art. 13, § 1 (Burns’ Rev. St. § 220; Rev. St. 1881, § 220).”
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.