Fox v. Lantrip’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Board of Education of Boyle County v. McChesney (1930), Taylor, County Jailer v. Todd (1931)
46 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.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The salaries of public officers shall not be changed during the terms for which they were elected; but it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to regulate, by a general law, in what cases and what deductions shall be made for neglect of official duties. This section shall apply to members of the General Assembly also.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fiscal court is one of the courts provided for in the Constitution of the state, and is given charge and direction of the fiscal affairs of the county.”
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.