McClellan v. Guerra’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1986
10 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 Guerra v. McClellan · Guerra v. McClellan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “ ‘Section 10a. The County Judge in preparing the budget to cover all proposed expenditures of the county government for the succeeding year ■ shall estimate the revenue to. be derived from taxes to be levied and collected ■ during such succeeding year, and such revenue shall be included in the estimated revenues available to cover the proposed budget.’ ” Vernon’s Ann.Civ. St. art. 689a-9a.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Such budget shall be carefully itemized so as to make as clear a comparison as practicable between expenditures included in the proposed budget and actual expenditures for the same or similar : purposes for the preceding year. The budget must also be so prepared as to show as definitely as possible each of the various projects for which appropriations are set up in- thé budget, and the estimated amount of money carried in the budget for each of such projects. The budget shall also contain a complete financial statement of the county, showing all outstanding obligations of the county, the cash on hand to the credit of each and every fund of the county government, the funds received from all sources during the previous year, the funds available from all sources during the ensuing year, the estimated revenues available to cover the proposed budget and the estimated rate of tax which will be required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guerra v. Rodriguez““The taxes payable in October, November and December, 1951, must be classed as current revenues for 1952, the succeeding year, and not for the year 1951. We construe the statute to so provide.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guerra v. Rodriguez
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.