Avery v. Job’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1948
1 federal appellate · 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 United States v. New Orleans · Lowell v. City of Boston · United States v. County of Macon · United States v. County of Clark · Spring Valley Water Works v. City & County of San Francisco
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The argument is that by this provision of the charter the money collected for water rates is made a special fund for the payment of the interest on the bonds as it accrues, and for the creation of a sinking fund for their payment at maturity, and that it is the only fund out of which such bonds or the interest thereon can be paid. As a general rule, when the Legislature authorizes a municipality to contract a debt, and issue bonds therefor, it is to be inferred that it intended to authorize the payment of such bonds out of the money raised by general taxation, unless there is something in the act itself, or some general limitation upon the power of taxation, which repels such an inference; and, although a special tax or fund may be provided, the bondholders’ remedy is not limited to such tax or fund, unless it is provided that the bonds shall not he paid in any other way. The bonds, when issued, become a debt of the corporation for which it is primarily liable, and for any balance due thereon after the application of the special fund the holders are entitled to payment out of the general fund of the corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““All moneys collected from water rates shall be kept separate from all other funds, and shall be known as the water fund, and shall only be used to pay the costs incurred by the city in operating such waterworks and extending and improving the same, and to pay the semi-annual interest on the bonds issued under this act, and all the surplus collected from water rates shall go to create a sinking fund with which to pay the principal on such bonds at maturity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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