Littlejohn v. Littlejohn’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Kimmons v. Jefferson County Board of Education (1920), 623 So. 2d 474 - State v. Family Bank of Hallandale (1993)
35 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 Hagan v. Commissioner's Court · O'Rear v. Sartain · Matkin v. Marengo County · Blackman v. Lehman, Durr & Co. · Gunter v. Hackworth
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It must be regarded as settled that the issuance by the authority of a commissioners' court of interest-bearing warrants on the county treasurer, payable at stated times in the future, to pay for public buildings, public roads and bridges, is not the issuance of bonds by the county within the provisions of section 222 of the Constitution; and that commissioners' courts are competent, unless restrained by the debt limit fixed in Section 224 of the Constitution [citations omitted], to issue interest-bearing warrants of the character above described [citations omitted]. "A county warrant `is the command of one duly authorized officer to another, whose duty it is to obey, to pay, from county funds, a specified sum to a designated person whose claim therefor has been allowed by the court of county commissioners.' [Citations omitted.] Such a warrant has not the attributes of commercial paper, and is not assignable, so as to be made the foundation of an action at the suit of a transferee. [Citations omitted.] "As employed in section 222 of the Constitution, the term `bond' signifies an obligation in writing to pay a sum of money. It imports, necessarily, a promise to pay a certain sum of money at a future date, and commonly bears no specific designation of the person or entity in whose favor its promise runs. Bonds authoritatively issued by agencies of the governments are commercial paper and are capable of assignment and of transfer, and the succeeding owner may of course found an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It must be regarded as settled that the issuance by the authority of a commissioners' court of interest-bearing warrants on the county treasurer, payable at stated times in the future, to pay for public buildings, public roads and bridges, is not the issuance of bonds by the county within the provisions of section 222 of the Constitution; and that commissioners' courts are competent, unless restrained by the debt limit fixed in Section 224 of the Constitution [citations omitted], to issue interest-bearing warrants of the character above described [citations omitted].”
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.