Ellison v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Foster v. Jefferson County Quorum Court (1995), Brewer v. Fergus (2002)
43 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 Woodruff v. Berry · School District v. Bennett · First National Bank v. Town of Mount Tabor · Hodges v. Lawyers Co-operative Publishing 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Practically speaking, officers would be expected to approve a contract which they had let ... . the two officers who assist in letting the contract might become committed to its approval before the matter was taken up with the Treasurer, as the Constitution evidently contemplated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Muncrief v. Hall“. . all such contracts shall be subject to the approval of the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Muncrief v. Hall
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.