Summers v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1983
8 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 Fitzgerald v. Walker · Oliver v. Whittaker · Pfeiffer v. Bertig · Bush v. Delta Road Improvement District · Ingle v. Batesville Grocery 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not within the power of the Legislature to authorize assessments in excess of the estimated benefits, even for the purpose of paying interest on bonds ... but the Legislature can authorize the charge of interest on postponed assessments, and such interest on assessments is not to be treated as a part of the cost of improvement, but may be imposed in addition to the assessed benefits. [ 223 S.W. at 724 ; citations omitted]”
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.