Powell v. . Tuttle’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1975 · most notably New York ex rel. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. v. New York State Board of Tax Commissioners (1905), People Ex Rel. Mutual Trust Co. v. . Miller (1903)
30 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 Downing v. Rugar
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he legislature seems to have contemplated the presence and participation of both commissioners in every official act. I think it very clear, that it was intended to secure, in every essential act to be performed by the commissioners, their joint deliberation and united judgment. When a duty merely mechanical is to be performed, as in the case of fixing up the advertisement of sale, the commissioners are authorized to cause such duty to be performed. But when any act is to be done, which involves, in any degree, the exercise of discretion, it seems to have been the policy and purpose of the legislature, to secure the benefit of the joint exercise of such discretion by the commissioners themselves.”
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.