Russell v. Jacoway’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1973 · most notably Monette Road Improvement District v. Dudley (1920), Freeman v. Lazarus (1895)
1 district · 25 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 Ex parte Smith · Ex parte Williams · Reeves v. Clarke
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The removal of the county seat is manifestly a local concern of the county, over which the county court has exclusive original jurisdiction; and its authority to determine for itself, whether the conditions exist upon which the removal is required, is unquestionable. Blackburn ex parte, supra.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horn v. Baker
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.