Black v. Strength’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Wright v. Allen (1923), Weber v. Walker (1979)
53 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the will of those having to bear the bond burden should not be defeated by a mere change of mind on the part of the members of the commissioners' court with respect to the particular roads needing improvement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fletcher v. Howard
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.