State v. Sappington’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1994
13 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 State Ex Rel. William R. Compton Co. v. Walter · State Ex Rel. Barkwell v. Trimble · Bonsack & Pearce, Inc. v. School District · Peter v. Kaufmann · State ex rel. Consolidated School District No. One v. Hackmann
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well settled that where the statute requires a municipal corporation to keep a record of its corporate acts, such acts, when called in question in a collateral proceeding, can be shown only by the records of the corporation; but where, as in this case, the secretary of the board failed to make a record of certain proceedings had by the board, and a direct proceeding is brought against him to compel him to make such a record, the best evidence rule is not violated by the introduction of parol evidence to prove what the board actually did * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Without correcting the minutes to show the written authorization, there is no conceivable way that relator could establish the validity of his contract.”
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.