Templeton v. Linn County’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Adams v. Iten Biscuit Co. (1917), Shea v. North-Butte Mining Co. (1919)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 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 Barnes v. District of Columbia · Commissioners of Laramie County v. Commissioners of Albany County · Conrad v. . the Trustees of the Village of Ithaca · Parmelee v. Lawrence · Lorillard v. . the Town of Monroe
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever injury the law, as it then stood, took cognizance of and furnished a remedy for, every man shall continue to have a remedy for by due course of law. When this Constitution was formed and adopted, it was and had been the law of the land, from comparatively an early day, that a person should have an action for damages against a county for an injury caused by its act or omission. If this then known and accustomed remedy can be taken away in the face of this constitutional provision, what other may not? Can the legislature, in some spasm of novel opinion, take away every man’s remedy for slander, assault and battery, or the recovery of a debt? and, if it cannot do so in such cases, why can it in this?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““An action may be maintained against a county or other of the public corporations mentioned or described in section 346, either upon a contract made by such county or other public corporation in its corporate character, and within the scope of its authority, or for an injury to the rights of the plaintiff, arising from some act or omission of such county or other public corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Every man shall have remedy by due course of law for injury done him in person, property or reputation.””
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.