Graves v. Purcell’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably Rathjen v. Reorganized School District R-II (1955), Coleman v. Jackson County (1942)
39 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 Inf. Atty. Gen. v. Hedrick · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Miller · State ex rel. Wiles v. Williams · Coffey v. City of Carthage · State ex rel. Buchanan County v. Imel
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`That said Section 12218 at page 352 of the Laws of Missouri for the year 1933 is also unconstitutional and void as in conflict with and contravention of Section 36, Article VI of the Constitution of Missouri in that said section undertakes to deprive the County Court of its right and power to transact the business of the county and to vest said power in the county auditor of defendant county and that said Section 12218 at page 352 of the Laws of Missouri for the year 1933 is unconstitutional and void as in violation of Section 28 of Article IV of the Constitution of Missouri in that the matters undertaken to be legislated upon in said section are not clearly expressed in the title of said act.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"But in instances where the title to the bill descends into particulars which are neither expressly nor by necessary implication restrictive of the general purpose of the bill as set forth in its title, but are merely descriptive of some of the instrumentalities or means to be employed in effectuating the general purpose of the bill as declared in its title, there is no constitutional barrier to the inclusion in the bill of provisions which are germane to and within the scope of the general purpose of the bill as declared in its title and which, although not set forth in the particulars expressed in the title, are not out of harmony with them."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garrey v. Schnider“No contract or order imposing any financial obligation on the county shall be binding on the county unless it be in writing and unless there is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the same is to be charged and a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation thereby incurred and unless such contract or order bear the certification of the accounting officer so stating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.