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← 205 Va. 629 - Button v. Day

Button v. Day’s Empirical Analysis

1964

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
7
states following
January 1978
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on City of Walla Walla v. Walla Walla Water Co · Almond v. Day · Harrison v. Day · Harrison v. Day · Town of South Hill v. Allen

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(a) Certificates of indebtedness, revenue bonds or other obligations issued in anticipation of the collection of the revenues of such city or town for the then current year; provided that such certificates, bonds or other obligations mature within one year from the date of their issue, and be not past due, and do not exceed the revenue for such year;”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “It is not a contract to furnish water, electricity or other public service utilities to the City, the furnishing of which is a condition of the obligation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “bonds or other interest-bearing obligations,”
    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.