Mills v. Lantrip’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 1956 · most notably Crick v. Rash (1921), Shipp v. Rodes (1922)
54 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 Morgantown Deposit Bank v. Johnson · Elliott v. Commonwealth · Woodruff v. Shea · Mitchell v. Henry County · Owen County v. Walker
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We certainly cannot concur in this contention (that plaintiffs could not maintain the suit) of counsel for appellant. It is alleged in the petition and admitted in the answer that before this action was instituted appellees filed a written request with the fiscal court, that it bring such an action, and it is further alleged in the petition that the fiscal court failed and refused to do as requested by appellees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * If there was authority of law to make a payment, the orders making the allowance were not void, and- the only relief is by appeal. ’”
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.