Duff v. Knott County’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1982
17 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 Kilbourn v. Sunderland · Village of Fort Edward v. . Fish · Crick v. Rash · Flowers v. Logan County · Uhler v. City of Olympia
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.
““[R]atification must be by an order unequivocal in character and duly entered and signed in the manner directed by the statutes governing the action of fiscal courts.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fiscal court of Knott county did not purport to employ or pay an agent or broker. No such order of the court is exhibited, and the court is authorized by law to speak only by its orders, duly authenticated. Kentucky Statutes, secs. 1838, 1842, 1843; Fox v. Lantrip, 162 Ky. 178 , 172 S. W. 133 ; Riddell v. Boone County, 183 Ky. 77 , 208 S. W. 323 ; McKechnie v. Canada, 198 Ky.; 807, 250 S. W. 111 Conrad v. Pendleton County, 209 Ky. 526 , 273 S. W. 57 ; Vanzant v. Watson, 230 Ky. 316 , 19 S. W. (2d) 994 .””
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.