Stanley v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1947
12 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 Rhea v. Newman · Hager v. Gast · Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum v. W. O. Bradley · James v. State University
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not mean to be understood as saying that an appropriation may not constitute a debt. It may be of such a character as to have all the essential elements of a contract, and in such a case, unquestionably it 'would be a debt; but under the authorities quoted above, an appropriation which merely authorizes the payment of a gratuity, or is made in support of one of the state institutions, or to create or maintain a useful arm of the state government or to defray the ordinary or current expenses of the state, does not constitute a debt such as is prohibited by section 49 of the Constitution. . . . ” “If the legislature should borrow or appropriate a hundred thousand dollars for some purpose other than the ordinary expenses of the government, and the amount thus borrowed or appropriated would carry the indebtedness of the state beyond the constitutional limit, the act would be unauthorized. 5?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Whenever any warrant hereafter issued by the auditor of public accounts shall be presented to the treasurer for redemption, and the funds appropriated for the purpose for which said warrant was issued are exhausted, the treasurer shall endorse thereon the date of its presentation with the words, ‘No funds with which to pay this warrant, and it bears five per cent (5%) interest from this date until called in, ’ with his official signature thereto, and such warrant shall thereafter bear interest at the rate of five per cent (5%) per annum, payable semiannually. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.