Powell v. Lawlor’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1972
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York City Employees' Retirement System v. Eliot · Lord & Burnham Co. v. City of New York · Third Avenue Transit Corp. v. City of New York
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.
“payment of public funds or trust funds by agents of municipalities is not subject to the general rule that money paid under a mistake of law may not be recovered back.”
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.