Duncan v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2018
7 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 Lafferty v. Huffman · Taylor v. Beckham · Wilson v. Hines · Sparks v. Robinson · Owensboro & Nashville Ry. Co. v. Barclay's Administrator
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the whole purpose of this statute is to prevent officers of a city from collecting from the citizens and taxpayers thereof money under a void ordinance, and the penalty imposed is both upon those who participated in the passage of such an ordinance and those who suffered the expenditure of money collected thereunder. This is the plain, unambiguous meaning of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.