McGehee v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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 Childs v. City of Columbia · Browne v. Bentonville · McCutchen v. Siloam Springs · Farwell v. City of Seattle · Warmack v. Major Stave Co.
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.
“Appellants also contend that this contract is in violation of Amendment No. 10 to the Constitution of 1874. This contention is grounded upon the theory that the water rentals due under the contract would be a charge against the general revenues of the city of Alma during the life of the contract. We do not so construe the contract. The' rentals therein provided are to be paid from the revenue derived from the distribution of the water supply. When the contract is thus construed, it can in no event offend the amendment.”
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.