McCombs v. West’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 601 · 1946
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1978
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Kersh Lake Drainage District v. Johnson · City of Winter Haven v. A. M. Klemm & Son · Durham v. Pentucket Groves, Inc. · City of Ocoee v. Beggs · City of Ocoee v. West
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Landowners may petition court to have certain land excluded from corporation limits. "When any incorporated town (or city) containing less than one hundred and fifty qualified electors shall, owing to extent of territory, have embraced within the limits any lands which may from distance or other cause be virtually or commensurately excluded from the benefits of such municipal organization, it is lawful for any owners of such lands or three-fourths of them desiring to have the same excluded from such corporation limits and jurisdiction, to apply by petition to the circuit court in and for the county in which said incorporated town is situated, setting forth in said petition the limits of such incorporated town as then existing and the grounds of his or their objection to be included within the limits of such corporation; whereupon the circuit court shall order notice of said application to be served upon the mayor of said town or city and appoint a day for the hearing of such application. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“On a motion for summary judgment made by defendants the facts alleged in the petition must be taken as true, unless by the admissions, depositions, and other evidence introduced, it appears beyond genuine controversy otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * may from distance or other cause be virtually and commensurately excluded from the benefits of such municipal organization, * * *”
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.