Hasting v. Jasper County’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2011
18 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. Walker v. Bus · Gracey v. City of St. Louis · State ex rel. Holmes v. Dillon · State ex rel. Buchanan County v. Imel · State ex rel. Bender v. Spencer
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right, authority and duty are created by statute. He is invested with.- some portion of the sovereign functions of the government to be exercised for the benefit of the public, and is consequently a public officer within the definition given by this 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.