Harris County v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1989
17 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 State v. Kennedy · Seiler v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners · Fischer v. Simon · Ellis County v. Thompson · Williams v. Taylor, District Clerk
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 3924, above quoted, was incorporated in the Revised Statute of 1895 in the title and chapter fixing fees of officers. Its obvious purpose in the statute in which it was placed was to avoid any question as to the right of officers to collect fees not embraced in the chapter in which it was incorporated, but otherwise provided for. The schedule of fees fixed in that chapter does not include fees of officers authorized by provisions of the Criminal Code of Procedure and statutes regulating other matters, both civil and criminal. We think it dear that when the codifiers, in arranging the title for the Revised Statutes of 1911, placed the maximum fee bill under the same title with the statute fixing the fees which officers were authorized to collect, they had no intention of applying artide 3924 to the provision of the maximum fee bill, and, if they had so intended, the placing of the two statutes under the same title could not be given that effect.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any other fees of office not embraced within-this title, but otherwise provided for, shall not be affected by the provisions hereof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It goes without saying that defendant was not entitled to credit for the expense of operating the automobiles for his private benefit or pleasure. We are further of opinion that, even when he used the automobiles in performing the duties of his office, the expense of their operation should not be regarded as expense necessarily incurred in the conduct of the office. It would hardly be contended that a sheriff could charge his office with feed for his horse or the upkeep and repairs of his buggy, though he often uses both in carrying on the business of his office, and there can be no difference in this respect between the feed for a horse and care and repairs of a buggy and the expense of operating an automobile.””
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.