Kleckley v. Pulliam’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2018
9 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 Knight v. Salisbury · People Ex Rel. City of Chicago v. Board of County Commissioners · Mills Mill v. Hawkins · Board of Trustees, Nprt. Pub. Lib. v. City of Nprt. · Berry v. Milliken
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relating to a specific county which relates to those powers, duties, functions and responsibilities, which under the mandated systems of government, are set aside for counties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o laws for a specific county shall be enacted and no county shall be exempted from the general laws or laws applicable to the selected alternative form of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not a county function within the meaning of Article VIII, Section 7, but one of state concern.”
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.