Decker v. Ponca City’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1972
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Bartlesville v. Holm · City of Tulsa v. Weston · White v. City of Pawhuska · Bocox v. Town of Bixby · Bickel v. Warner-Quinlan Asphalt Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where jurisdiction is conferred upon a municipal body to provide for paving its streets, and charge the cost thereof against the property benefited, according to the method provided by law, a property owner who stands by while such work is being prosecuted, with full knowledge that large expenditures are being made for such im provement which will benefit his property, will not, after the work is completed, be afforded relief by injunction against assessments levied against the property benefited to pay for such work.””
3 later decisions 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.