Lowndes v. Board of Trustees of the Town of Huntington’s Empirical Analysis
153 U.S. 1 · 1894
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1972 · most notably United States v. Arthur Lynah (1903), Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910)
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 29 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 Shively v. Bowlby · Burgess v. Seligman · Hardin v. Jordan · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Copy of Demand.] To WM. W. WOOD, President, WARREN B. SAMMIS, BUEL TITUS, WM. H. SAMMIS, J. MATTHIAS, HENRY BUFFETT, ISAAC C. IRELAND, Trustees of the Town of Huntington, elected April 2, 1872. GENTLEMEN: By virtue of Chapter 492 of the Laws of the State of New York, entitled ‘an Act to abolish the office of Trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of the Town of Huntington, in the Town of Huntington, County of Suffolk, and to create their successors,’ we the undersigned, after due consultation with eminent counsel, consider it our duty, as successors created under that Act, and we do hereby make a formal demand of you the former Trustees, of all books, papers, documents, moneys or any and all property that may be in your possession, or subject to your order, that may belong [sic] or owned by said Town of Huntington, and that the same shall be delivered and put in our possession, as being the proper custodians thereof, on or before the 20th day of July, 1872. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and signatures this fifteenth day of July, 1872. J. AMHERST WOODHULL, Supervisor. DANIEL L. BAYLIS, Town Clerk. O. SMITH SAMMIS,] SELAH SMITH, J Assessors Recorded by Daniel L. Baylis, Town Clerk.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is also a rule of construction that, when one section of a statute treats specially and solely of a matter, that section prevails in reference to that matter over other sections in which only incidental reference is made thereto. Not because one section has more force as a legislative enactment than another, but because the legislative mind having been, in the one_ section, directed to this matter, must be presumed to have there expressed its intention thereon rather than in other sections where its attention was turned to other things.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““all ye Lands that already have beene or hereafter shall bee Purchased for and on the behalfe of the said Towne of Huntington whether from the Natives Proprietors or others within the Limitts and Bounds herein exprest”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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