Evans v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1988
12 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 City of Kansas City v. Slangstrom · Grentner v. Fehrenschield · Gresty v. Darby · Cunningham v. Blythe · State ex rel. Parker v. Stonehouse Drainage District, No. 1
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.
““We-shall not make an extensive review of the law covering organization of the Stonehouse Drainage District, or of its powers (G. S. 1935, 24-401 et seq.). The petition alleges the district is a corporation. Under the statute it is a 'body politic and corporate’ with power to sue and be sued, and to take charge of and exercise control of watercourses, to construct ditches, drains and levees, to levy assessments and special taxes to defray cost of improvements to levy and collect a general tax to create a general fund, and other powers as set out in the statute (24-407). The affairs of such a district are managed by a board of three directors (24-409) elected by the taxpayers of the district (24-411). In addition there is full authorization for making improvements. That the three defendants last referred to were operating as directors of the drainage district under color of statute and law and dealing with a matter over which they had jurisdiction is clearly deducible from the allegations of the petition, and from those allegations it is likewise clear that plaintiff seeks to hold them individually responsible because through a mistake of the law applicable, they failed to procure approval of the chief engineer of the division of water resources which we held to be a condition precedent to the making of the proposed improvement. (See State, ex rel., v. Stonehouse Drainage Dist., 152 Kan. 188 , 102 P. 2d 1017 .) It is clear from the statute and from allegations of the petition ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tillotson v. Fair““Where a public officer performs, without jurisdiction, a quasi-judicial act, he is not exempt from liability to persons injured thereby, at least unless the subject matter of such act belongs to a class over which he has jurisdiction and the act is performed under color of jurisdiction.” (Syl. ¶ 7.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tillotson v. Fair
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.