Saxon v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2003
18 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, ATTY. GEN. v. Shipp · Ellis v. Ellis · Rush v. State · Mississippi Road Supply Co. v. Hester · Spencer v. Marmon
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cause is remanded for an accounting as to the remaining charges of misuse of public equipment, materials, and employees, and for an injunction to issue from the trial court enjoining the defendant from similar unauthorized activities, and finally, for a judgment, in accord with the accounting, against Harvey and his surety, payable to the county, * * * (Saxon v. Harvey, 190 So.2d at 908 (Miss. 1966).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. The suit must attack an appropriation to an object not authorized by law. 2. The suit must be brought on behalf of the public and the public must be invited to join therein. 3. The public official whose duty it is to bring suit must be presented with facts sufficient to convince the legal mind that the suit should be brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which contemplates or condones the use of public equipment, materials, or labor upon private projects.”
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.