State Ex Rel. Strong v. Cribb’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1993
14 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. Phillip v. Public School Retirement System · Saleno v. City of Neosho · State ex rel. Hadley v. Adkins · Book v. Earl · Hight v. City of Harrisonville
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No county, city, incorporated town or village, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the state shall become indebted in an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year plus any unencumbered balances from previous years, except as otherwise provided in this constitution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here remained in the county treasury, at the end of 1952, a sum unencumbered sufficient in amount so that the County Court, ... could, if it saw fit, pay the entire amount due under the contract out of the unencumbered balance.”
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.