Law, Co. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2016
12 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. Attorney General v. Lazarus · Minkler v. State ex rel. Smithers
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘genuine,’ as used in the statute, refers to a real claim as contradistinguished from a mere counterfeit. It does not mean that the claim referred to must he a counterfeit or an imitation of some valid claim to bring it within the statute. Neither does it mean, as respondent’s counsel contend, and as the trial court seemingly held, that the claim referred to in section 4083 must be one which upon its face must appear legal and payable by the officer to whom it is presented for allowance and payment in the sense that the law authorizes its allowance or payment by such officer. The statute is violated if the claim is one which upon its face purports to be a charge against the particular political division for which the officer or board mentioned in the statute acts in allowing or paying it.””
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.