Hale v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2014
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 State Ex Rel. Lake County Council v. Lake County Court · 157 Ind. App. 586 - Perry County Council v. State Ex Rel. Baertich · Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission v. State Ex Rel. Harmon · LAKE CTY. COUNCIL v. Arredondo
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.
“However, these cases [holding attorney’s fees not recoverable] are ... different from the case at bar____ The relief sought in both cases would inure to the personal benefit of the plaintiffs. In the case at bar Judge Smith issued the mandate in his official capacity ..., but for the purpose of meeting the operational needs of the ... Court____ In light of this, this ... proceeding is ... to be viewed ... as a dispute between two arms of the county government ... and the fees ... should be paid by the county.”
2 later decisions 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.