Piper v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably General Building Contractors, L.L.C. v. Board of Shawnee County Commissioners (2003), Boozer v. Johnson (1953)
23 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 Ford v. City of Hutchinson · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Board of Commissioners · Moore v. City of Pratt · City of Wichita v. Robb · State ex rel. Bradford v. Board of 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"That power to take action includes the right to ratify was determined early in the history of jurisprudence in this jurisdiction. "In State v. Comm'rs of Pawnee County, 12 Kan. 426 , we held: `It is a general principle of almost universal application that whenever a state, county, corporation, partnership, or person has power originally to do a particular thing, it also has the power to ratify and make valid an attempted effort to do such thing, although the same may have been done ever so defectively, informally, or even fraudulently in the first instance.' (Syl. ¶ 5.) "And at page 439 of the opinion in that case said: ` . . . This principle is so elementary in its nature that it requires no citation of authorities to uphold it.'"”
4 later decisions 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.