State ex rel. Cochran v. Eakin’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Golding, State Auditor v. SALTER · Wood v. Honeyman · Barnett v. Lollar · Betterson v. Stewart · Murphy v. Panther Oil & Grease Mfg. Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“We are not to be misunderstood as holding, as respects the expenditure of public funds, that any payment whatever it is, will be without any personal liability on the part of the officer if only the purpose of the payment was somewhere within the general field of his jurisdiction. A payment may be within that general field and yet so clearly and distinctly one which the officer could not lawfully make as to bar him from justification in taking the position that he did it in good faith and honest error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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