Washington County v. Weld County’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1931
3 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 Mount Pleasant v. Beckwith · Commissioners of Laramie County v. Commissioners of Albany County · People of the State of N.Y. v. . Ingersoll
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, in the first place, it will be noticed that there are no words that can be regarded as expressly granting to the new counties a right to share in the moneys on hand; secondly, that no basis for such apportionment is specifically named; yet, in the absence of provision in the premises, it may be doubtful if the intent to distribute the funds, admitting that such intent is shown, could be carried out. Because the legislature adopted a certain basis for the distribution of indebtedness, it does not necessarily follow that this body intended to apply the same method to the apportionment of surplus funds.””
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.