Williams v. Klemmer’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1965
1 federal appellate · 5 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 State ex rel. Lamb v. Cunningham · Dreyfus v. Boone · County of Modoc v. Spencer · Hughson v. Crane · Grannis v. Board of County 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That one or more taxpayers may bring suit against municipal officers to enjoin the unauthorised expenditure of public funds, without bringing such suit on behalf of all taxpayers swiiilarly situated, seems well enough established in this state.. 3 Dunnell, Minn. Dig. (2 ed.) § 4480; 6 Dunnell, Minn. Dig. (2 ed.) § 9539; Hodgman v. C. & St. P. Ry. Co. 20 Minn. 36 (48); Grannis v. Commrs. of Blue Earth County, 81 Minn. 55 , 83 N. W. 495 ; Hamilton v. Village of Detroit, 85 Minn. 83 , 88 N. W. 419 ; Schiffmann v. City of St. Paul, 88 Minn. 43 , 92 N. W. 503 . Authorities from other states are not wanting. Semones v. Needles, 137 Iowa, 177 , 114 N. W. 904 , 14 L.R.A. (N.S.) 1156, 15 Ann. Cas. 1012; State ex rel. Lamb v. Cunningham, 83 Wis. 90 , 53 N. W. 35 , 17 L. R. A. 145, 35 A. S. R. 27; Davenport v. Buffington (C. C. A.) 97 F. 234 , 46 L. R. A. 377; Chestnutwood v. Hood, 68 Ill. 132 ; Dreyfus v. Boone, 88 Ark. 353 , 114 S. W. 718 ; Matthis v. Town of Cameron, 62 Mo. 504 ; Poppleton v. Moores, 62 Neb. 851 , 88 N. W. 128 ; Id. 67 Neb. 388 , 93 N. W. 747 ; Hoekman v. Iowa Tp. 28 S. D. 206, 132 N. W. 1004 ; 32 C. J. p. 259, § 408.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cranak v. Link““That one or more taxpayers may bring suit against municipal officers to enjoin the unauthorized expenditure of public funds, without bringing such suit on behalf of all taxpayers similarly situated, seems well enough established in this state. 3 Dunnell, Minn. Dig. (2 ed.) § 4480; 6 Dunnell, Minn. Dig. (2 ed.) § 9539; Hodgman v. C. & St. P. Ry. Co. 20 Minn. 36 (48); Grannis v. Commrs. of Blue Earth County, 81 Minn. 55 , 83 N. W. 495 ; Hamilton v. Village of Detroit, 85 Minn. 83 , 88 N. W. 419 ; Schiffmann v. City of St. Paul, 88 Minn. 43 , 92 N. W. 503 .””
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.