Mobile County v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Morgan County Commission v. Powell (1974), Union Indemnity Co. v. Webster (1928)
77 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 Board of Commissioners of Huntington Co. v. Heaston · State ex rel. Lott v. Brewer · Board of Supervisors v. . Ellis · Commissioners' Court v. Moore · Jeffersonian Publishing Co. v. Hilliard
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a public officer collects money from a county, as fees or compensation for services rendered by him, and to which fees or compensation he is not legally entitled, such county can maintain a suit for the recovery of the money so illegally obtained by him and recover the same”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] person claiming fees or costs must point to the definite law authorizing it; the law will not be extended beyond its letter; the law may impose duties upon public officers without providing compensation therefor.”
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.