Fletcher v. Weigel’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1972
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Topeka v. Dwyer · Horner v. City of Atchison · In re Short
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. • . These statutes furnished the color of law and semblance of legal right ample and sufficient to sustain the annexation of the addition as against a collateral attack. Where a municipal corporation is acting under color of law, and its existence is not questioned by the state, it cannot be collaterally drawn in question by private parties. (Topeka v. Dwyer, 70 Kan. 244 , 78 Pac. 417 , In re Short, 47 Kan. 250 , 27 Pac. 1005 ; Horner v. City of Atchison, 93 Kan. 557 , 144 Pac. 1010 .)” (p. 108.)”
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.