Chaney v. Edmonds’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1961
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 State ex rel. Weber v. Younkin · Keach v. McDonald · Hawkins v. Gregory · First National Bank v. Heflebower
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.
““Payment for the services of attorneys employed by drainage districts organized under the provisions of the drainage district act of 1905, as amended, may only be made out of the general fund maintained by such district. (G. S. 1935, 24-428.)” (Syl. ff 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It shall be the duty of the treasurer of any county, city, township, school district or board of education to pay on presentation any warrant properly drawn on any fund in his custody by virtue of his1 office, . •. .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The compensation of the directors, assessors, engineers and attorneys employed by the board of directors shall be paid out of the general fund herein-before authorized.””
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.