Button v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1991
21 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 Boe v. Foss · State ex rel. Fatzer v. Board of Regents · Boswell v. State · Almond v. Gilmer · State v. Regents of the University System
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the political entity is made generally liable, then an indebtedness is created within the debt limitations of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“payable solely from a special fund[,] . . . the general credit of the State”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. Mazur“are not secured by the general credit of the State or the issuing agency”
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.