James v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Coleman, Auditor v. Hurst (1928), Dunlap v. Littell (1923)
29 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 Purnell v. Mann · City of Louisville v. Wilson · Commonwealth v. Tate · Mitchell v. Henry County · Louisville Banking Co. v. Buchanan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affords no opportunity for evasion by the Legislature or other body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. Maze
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.