Black v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1994
21 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 Taylor v. Beckham · State Ex Rel. Barney v. Hawkins · City of Lexington v. Thompson · Gregory v. Kansas City · Bannon v. Patrick Bannon Sewer Pipe Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statute should not be extended to officers under the guise that they are employees for the all too apparent purpose of perpetuating them in office.”
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.