Cunningham v. Stockton’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 1984
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fones Hardware Co. v. Erb · McLellan v. Pledger, County Treasurer · Bowman v. Frith · Sadler v. Craven
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any citizen of any county, city or town may institute suit in behalf of himself and all others interested, to protect the inhabitants thereof against the enforcement of any illegal exactions whatever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pogue v. Cooper
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.