Lewis v. Colgan’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1993
16 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 County of Modoc v. Spencer · Bateman v. Colgan · Robinson v. Bd. of Supervisors of Sacramento · Love v. Baehr · Linden v. Case
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It does not follow from this view that their authority in the matter (in hiring an expert) is unlimited and unrestrained, as appellant assumes it would be. On the contrary, whatever they do is subject to the approval of the legislature. They may employ an expert, but he cannot be paid without an appropriation, and he can be paid no more than the legislature may deem reasonable. He is not an officer with a fixed term of office and a salary ascertained by law, but a mere employe of the board, holding his position at their pleasure, and entitled to such compensation only for the time of his employment as the board may allow and the legislature approve by the appropriation of money for the payment.””
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.