Smith County v. Mangum’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Colle Towing Co. v. Harrison County (1952), 352 So. 2d 795 - Thompson v. JONES CTY. COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (1977)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Bridges v. Board of Supervisors · Lamar County v. Tally · Gilchrist-Fordney Co. v. Keyes · Marion County v. Foxworth · Crump v. Board of Supervisors
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The board of supervisors may 'by a new contract, or an amendment of its original contract, or by a ratification (all of which must be by acts of the board in open session, spread upon its minutes), bind the county to pay.’ ”) (quoting Groton Bridge & Mfg. Co. v. Bd. of Sup'rs of Warren Cty., 80 Miss. 214 , 31 So. 711 , 712 (1902)); see also Lee County, 174 So. at 77 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t is manifest that the board of supervisors of a county can only enter into an express contract by an order spread upon its minutes, and that there can be no such thing as a verbal or oral order of this board. * * * ” Id. at 207 , 89 So. at 914 .”
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.