Munson v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Cotten v. Fooks (2001), City of Hot Springs v. Creviston (1986)
26 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 Berry v. Gordon · State ex rel. Weldon v. Thomason · MacKey v. McDonald · Black v. Cockrill · McCoy v. Handlin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the law of this State that the chancery court has jurisdiction to order repayment of an illegal exaction even where the `exaction' is in good faith and has been approved by the county court.”
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.