MacKey v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Foster v. Jefferson County Quorum Court (1995), Mears v. Hall (1978)
34 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 Fones Hardware Co. v. Erb · Samples v. Grady · Farrell v. Oliver · Polk County v. Mena Star Co. · Nelson v. Berry Petroleum Company
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“*** The holding of elections, printing ballots, poll-books, tally sheets and other election supplies; the feeding of prisoners confined in the county jail; the holding of courts of record and fees of justices of the peace; the salaries and fees of county officers, including the prosecuting attorneys; the making of assessments and tax books, and collecting taxes, are all necessary county expenses imposed by law, over which the county court has no control or discretion, except possibly the amount to be allowed for the service rendered, as all compensation is either fixed by law, or is provided for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It seems that, under this section of the Constitution, equitable remedies are accorded the taxpayer to prevent misapplication of funds when the taxpayer may be required to replenish those funds if exhausted through the misapplication. Eddy v. Schuman, supra. ( 206 Ark. 849 ). It also seems clear that this constitutional provision is applicable in every case where taxpayers will bear the burden of replenishing funds exhausted by misapplication.” (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tedford v. Mears“After hearing the matter, the chancellor expressed grave concern about the jurisdiction of the chancery court to act in the matter, as well he might. In view of the disposition we make of the case, however, we need not concern ourselves too much with the serious doubt about the jurisdiction of the chancery court over this action, which basically would appear to fall within the jurisdiction of the circuit court under Art. 7, Sec. 14.”
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.