Ziegler v. . Chapin’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 1974 · most notably Newburyport Water Company v. City of Newburyport (1904), Kaskel v. Impellitteri (1953)
65 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 Talcott v. . City of Buffalo · In Re Rochester Water Commissioners to Acquire Lands of Rochester Water Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the officer is honest and faithful, no suit against him is needed. The taxpayer may explain to him the facts, and discover to him the fraud, and the courts are open for his protection, and the means of redress are at hand. It is only when, in the face of explanation and knowledge, he still refuses to act, and persists in carrying out the wasteful contract, that an action against him is needed; and then it rests upon his misconduct,—upon his collusion and fraud,—which must be alleged and proved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We have quite recently declined to become arbitrators between taxpayers .and their municipal officers in every instance of disagreeing opinions or conflicting judgments, and have decided that, jurisdiction in the officials existing, the courts can interfere in actions like that before us only where some fraud or collusion or bad faith is alleged and proved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boon v. McGucken
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.