McLeod v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1978
22 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 ex rel. Adamson v. Lafayette County Court · Pettigrew v. Washington County · Charles Kohn & Co. v. Hinshaw · Bean v. County Court · Ex parte Candee
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In approving the sheriff’s bond as collector of the state and county revenue, the justices of the county court act in a ministerial and not in a judicial capacity. Their discretion is confined to an examination of the sufficiency of the securities offered, and that must be a sound legal discretion and not capricious, arbitrary or oppressive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riesland v. Bailey
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.