Malone v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1988
21 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The next section complained of is section 7' of article 8. That section reads as follows: ‘ Sec. 7. Be it further enacted that the city, in taking-appeals or prosecuting a writ of error in any judicial proceeding, shall give bond as required by law, but it is hereby released from the obligation of law to furnish security therefor. Every such bond shall be executed by the president in the name of the city and under the corporate seal thereof, and shall be taken in all courts of this state as a full and complete compliance with the law in such cases. ’ An act of the Legislature embodying the substance of the foregoing section was held unconstitutional and void, as in violation of article 11, sec. 8, of the Constitution as far back as the April term of this court in the year 1877. See City of Memphis v. Fisher, 68 Tenn. 239 . The section above quoted must therefore be declared unconstitutional.” Malone v. Williams, 118 Tenn. 431 -432.”
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.