Huffman v. Kite’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Fox v. Custis (1988), 18 Va. App. 840 - Woolfolk v. Commonwealth (1994)
33 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 126 W. Va. 568 - Nelson v. Nash · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fortney v. Wozney · City of Jersey City v. State Board of Tax Appeals · Nelms v. Vaughan · State v. Industrial Commission
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a rule a statute prescribing die time within which public officers are required to perform an official act regarding the rights and duties of others, and enacted with a view to the proper, orderly, and prompt conduct of business, is directory unless it denies the exercise of the power after such time, or the phraseology of the statute, or the nature of the act to be performed, and the consequences of doing or failing to do it at such time are such that the designation of the time must be considered a limitation on the power of the officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Generally the rule is where a statute specifies a time within which a public officer is to perform an act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as merely directory, unless the nature of the act to be performed or the language shows that the designation of time was intended as a limitation of power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t [was] not intended to fix a time limitation upon the power of the court or judge in vacation to make an appointment ... or to invalidate a tardy appointment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.