Garner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1977
19 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 City of Mobile v. Mobile Electric Co. · Knight v. State · Ex Parte Cowart · Town of Clanton v. Chilton County · Coleman v. Town of Hartford
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.
“A contract with the city must be executed and authorized as directed by law to be legal. If not thus done, it is non est factum.”
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.