Cunningham v. Blythe’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably Brown v. Wichita State University (1975), 7 Kan. App. 2d 603 - Gomez v. Hug (1982)
26 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 Broom v. Douglass · State ex rel. Reynolds v. Board of Commissioners · Mygatt v. . Washburn · Waldron v. Berry · State ex rel. Coleman v. Board of County Commissioners
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`When so acting (as a quasi-judicial officer), he is usually given immunity from liability to persons who may be injured as the result of an erroneous decision, provided the acts complained of are done within the scope of the officer's authority. ' (22 R.C.L. 485.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`The general rule protecting judges from civil liability for acts within the limits of their jurisdiction applies to officers exercising quasi-judicial powers....' (46 C.J. 1043.)" (p. 696.)”
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.