Farish v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2012
24 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 Donahue v. County of Will · Board of Street Commissioners v. Williams · State ex rel. Denison v. City of St. Louis · State ex rel. Starkweather v. Common Council of the City of Superior · Fuller v. Ellis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The extent of the power of the court to review upon certiorari is limited to a determination of the question as to whether the inferior tribunal, board, or officer has exceeded its jurisdiction and whether it has regularly pursued the authority of such tribunal, board, or officer. The court has no power to weigh the evidence and revise the judgment, if jurisdiction exists and the authority was regularly pursued. It may not substitute its judgment for the judgment of the inferior tribunal, board, or officer upon the merits of the controversy. The charges may have been unfounded, the evidence in support thereof slight, and the judgment rendered by the commission may have done the appellant a great injustice; and, if the court were vested with authority to weigh the evidence, it might so hold, but the determination of these matters the Legislature has withheld from the courts. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The City Manager shall be appointed by the Commission and shall hold his office until removed for cause by the Commission.””
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.