Fergus v. Russel’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2022
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court of Claims is a statutory body not provided for in the Constitution, and its action can have no effect upon the power of the Legislature to pay claims against the State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crabtree v. State
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.