Chapin v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1950
4 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 Kirkwood v. Soto
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In some counties supervisors receive a fixed, annual salary, without any provision for mileage, while in others mileage to a limited amount is allowed them. In some they receive a per diem without any limitation upon its amount, and a mileage not to exceed a certain amount; and in some there is a limit upon each, while in others the limit is upon the per diem alone. Of those that receive a per diem and mileage there is in some a limitation upon one, and in some a limitation upon the other, and in some a limit upon neither. The provision for these officers in the forty-second class differs from all the others in that the limit to the entire compensation is made definite and precise. After determining that the basis upon which their compensation is to be fixed shall be a per diem and mileage, and fixing the amount of each of these elements, the legislature has declared that ‘all of which compensation in the aggregate shall not exceed four hundred dollars per annum each, ’ thus leaving little, if any, room for construction. It wo33ld be difficult to express in more explicit language that the entire amount which a supervisor in this class of counties shall receive in any one year for the services required of him by law, or by virtue of his office, is four hundred dollars. Traveling to and from his residence to the county seat is as much a part, of the services required of him as is the sitting in the council chamber of the board, and the compensation for these services has been ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayes v. Kuhn“all of which compensation in the aggregate shall not exceed four hundred dollars per annum.”
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.