Hill v. City of Kahoka’s Empirical Analysis
35 F. 32 · 1888
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
March 1987
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mobile v. Watson · Broughton v. Pensacola · County of Macon v. Shores · Kayser v. Trustees of Bremen · State ex rel. Patterson v. McReynolds
Most-quoted passages
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“debt once contracted by a municipal corporation will survive as a debt against whatever corporate entity is subsequently created to take its place and exercise its power of local government over substantially the same people and territory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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