State v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 1976 · most notably People ex rel. Setters v. Lee (1923), State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Murphy (1941)
53 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 Copeland v. City of St. Joseph · State ex rel. Patterson v. McReynolds · State ex rel. Meriwether v. Campbell · Burnes ex rel. Cook v. City of Edgerton
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That order and finding of the county court under the circumstances made, is final and conclusive, binding alike upon this and all other courts. That court, in such inquiries, is the agent of the State, exclusively authorized and empowered to ascertain and determine those very facts, and the State, through its Attorney-General, or its prosecuting attorneys of the different counties of the State, can not question the act of the State’s court agent, acting within the scope of its authority, unless fraud and collusion on the part of such agent is charged and proven, or unless fraud has been so practiced upon it, in the matter of procuring the order, that for that reason it might be treated as fraudulent. . . . The jurisdiction of the county court in this matter attached by the filing of the petition with it, signed by what purported to be a majority of the inhabitants • of the district sought to be incorporated, and no mere error of judgment, on the part of that body, in the matter of computing the fact, as to the real number of the inhabitants of the incorporated district, or error of judgment on its part as to the question of law, as to who of the designated community are to be reckoned and counted as ‘taxable inhabitants,’ can be inquired into by this or any other court, to arrest or disturb the force of the finding and judgment, or to correct a possible error of fact or law, that court might have made in the course of its inquiry, unless illegality in the proceedings or frau”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.