Blair v. County of Cuming’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 363 · 1884
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Cole v. City of La Grange (1885), Head v. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. (1885)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Osborne v. County of Adams · Lowell v. City of Boston · Davenport v. County of Dodge · Township of Burlington v. Beasley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the commissioners had power to bind the county for the payment of the principal and interest of a bond transferable by delivery, the coupons which are appended to them are the appointed evidence of the agreement of the parties, to show who is entitled, as holder of the bond, to receive the interest due at a particular date. They are attached to the bonds for the convenience of the officers of the county, and to facilitate their negotiation, and thereby add to their commercial value. The obligation to pay the interest is to be found in. the bond, not in the coupon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It was not necessary that all the commissioners should sign the bonds. What was done was not an issuing of the bonds by the chairman and clerk. The coupons, in the form in which they were issued, annexed to the bond, were adopted as coupons by the statement in the body of the bond; and the question as to any one of them, when detached, is only one of genuineness and identity.””
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.