Colvin v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Personnel Board of Mobile County v. City of Mobile (1955), State Ex Rel. Radcliff v. City of Mobile (1934)
23 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 Coleman v. Town of Eutaw · City of Eufaula v. McNab · Fulton v. State · Prowell v. State ex rel. Hasty · Scott v. Simons
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is established that a municipal corporation may exercise these, and only these powers: Those granted in express terms; those necessarily implied in, or incident to, the powers expressly conferred; and those indispensably necessary to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the municipality.”
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.