Newcomb v. Ingram’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2006
15 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 Wait v. Pierce · Cowie v. Strohmeyer · State ex rel. Cothren v. Lean · Northern Wisconsin Co-operative Tobacco Pool v. Bekkedal · Will on Dardis
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘being mere creatures of the statute, have no powers except such as are derived from the statute, and it must appear upon the face of their proceedings that they acted within the powers granted. If this does not appear, all they do is coram non judice and void.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Golliner“[The trustee] accepted the letters [of trust], and must be deemed to have acted as trustee from that time on, and his liability as trustee for the parties began at that date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defaults that occurred previous to the execution of [their] bond[s].”
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.