Cunningham v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1999
5 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 Putnam v. City of Salina · City of Arkansas City v. Turner · State v. Thomas · Board of County Commissioners v. Radley · State ex rel. Jackson v. Prather
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 1. In lieu of the fees and/or'salaries heretofore paid certain county officers and employees during the period commencing April first, 1933, and ending March thirty-first, 1935, there shall be paid to or collected by said officers and employees the fees and/or salaries set forth and provided for in this act. “Section 10. . . . “For attending the jail when occupied by prisoner or prisoners, per day, there may be allowed by the board of county commissioners, to belong to the sheriff, one dollar.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The time a statute is in force may be limited at the time it is enacted by fixing a date, event, or circumstance for its termination (26 A. & E. Ency. of Law, p. 534), and, when the time so limited expires, it ceases to operate (Id. p. 715). See, also, Lewis' Sutherland Statutory Construction (2d Ed.) § 244; 25 R.C.L. 765. When an act expires by its own limitations, the effect is the same as though it had been repealed at that time. 25 R.C.L. 932."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““At the time of the meeting of the legislature in 1933, because of a general financial depression, there was a decided disposition to limit governmental expenditures. One way to do that was to reduce salaries of public officials.” (p. 272.)”
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.