Willmeth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1965
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Connell v. State Highway Commission · Kleppe v. Prawl · Wendler v. City of Great Bend · Steele v. Rapp · Drenning v. Board of Commissioners
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Shall the following be adopted? Shall Jewell County, Kansas, levy a tax of not to exceed two (2) mills on the dollar for any one year, for the purchase of a site or sites, and the erection thereon of a Long Term Care and Convalescent County Hospital, and for the support of the same, in the City of Mankato, Jewell County, Kansas, at a cost of not to exceed $440,000.00, under the authority of Sections 19-1801 et seq. of the 1961 Supplement to the General Statutes of Kansas for 1949, $220,000.00 of said amount to be obtained through a grant from a federal agency and-or donations from persons, firms, organizations, corporations or societies? “To vote in favor of the levy, make a cross ‘x’ mark in the square after the words ‘fob the levy.’ “To vote against the levy, make a cross ‘X’ mark in the square after the words ‘against the levy.’ “fob the levy □ “against the levy □””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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