Gipson v. Ingram’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority v. McCrane (1972), State Ex Rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick (1974)
2 district · 33 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 Hooper v. People of State of California · Standard Oil Co. v. Brodie · Bush v. Martineau · Carson v. St. Francis Levee District · Vance v. Austell
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * We are unwilling to recede from the position taken in that case, for it is plain that the framers of the Constitution intended to place an unmistakable limitation upon the authority of public officials in paying out public funds and to declare that all the state funds which are within the purview of that provision must be held in the treasury, until a specific appropriation thereof has been made by the Legislature. The power of the General Assembly with respect to the public funds raised by general taxation is supreme, and no state official, from the highest to the lowest, has any power to create an obligation of the state, either legal or moral, unless there has first been a specific appropriation of funds to meet the obligation. The Constitution provides, too, that no appropriation shall be for a longer period than two years, and thus a period is fixed over which the lawmakers hold complete control over the pursestrings of the state."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Straub v. Gordon involved a provision of the Arkansas Constitution of 1868. The opinion was delivered in 1872, so the definition of `treasury' had been judicially determined before those words were employed in our present Constitution of 1874."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borchert v. Scott“The general assembly shall tax all privileges, * * * and the amount thus raised shall be paid into the treasury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borchert v. Scott
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.