Menar v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1947
14 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 Galveston v. Posnainsky · McCracken v. City of San Francisco · City of Chicago v. Sexton · Beard v. City of Hopkinsville · O'Bryan v. City of Owensboro
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We regard the authorities supra decisive 'of the question under consideration, as they convincingly demonstrate that for a neglect of duty of the kind here complained of the city is liable, even though it has reached the limit of its power to contract debts and levy taxes. To hold otherwise would, permit such municipalities, in every case like this, to take advantage of their own negligence and remove every incentive to the keeping of their streets- and sidewalks in such repair as would make them-reasonably -safe for the use of the public.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The limitations contained in that section apply to indebtedness created or attempted to be incurred by a municipality by contract. They have no application where the liability incurred by the municipality is for a tort caused by or resulting from its own negligence. Such is the meaning we have repeatedly given this section.””
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.