Fox v. Lantrip’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably Horner v. Chamber of Commerce (1952), Williams ex rel. Pike County v. Stallard (1919)
1 federal appellate · 51 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 Ray v. Woodruff · Hurt v. Morgan County · Bennett v. Tiernay · Desha's Admrs. v. Harrison County · Barnett v. Gilbert
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And when, as in this case, the public authorities whose duty it is to bring a suit to recover public funds wrongfully paid out, refuse to do so, and the duty is thus imposed on the citizen in his private capacity, he should be allowed his attorneys’ fees if successful.””
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.