Wetherell v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably Kocsis v. Chicago Park District (1935), Clare v. Bell (1941)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Chicago v. Sheldon · Dickey v. Reed · Harward v. St. Clair & Monroe Levee & Drainage Co. · Taylor v. Thompson · Illinois Central Railroad v. County of McLean
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All expenses incurred by such board of election commissioners shall be paid by such city. Such salaries and expenditures are to be audited by the county judges, and such, salaries shall be paid by the county treasurer, upon the warrant of such county judge, of any money in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated, and such expenditures shall be paid by the city treasurer, upon the warrant of such county judge, out of any money in the city treasury not otherwise appropriated. It shall also be the duty of the governing authority of such counties and cities respectively to make provision for the prompt payment of such salaries and expenditures, as the ease may be.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The expenses incurred by the election commissioners, which the city is required to pay, are for office rent, clerk hire, stationery, printing, books, registers, poll lists, blanks, ballots, ballot boxes, etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘A tax for a corporate purpose’ has been defined to be ‘a tax to be expended in a manner which shall promote the general prosperity and welfare of the municipality which levies it.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.