Kimbrough v. Walling’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2018
23 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 Moore v. Dilworth · East Texas Motor Freight Lines v. Loftis · Davis v. City of Taylor · City of Abilene v. Sayles · Sayles v. City of Abilene
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“citing authority. The Court went on to say in effect that this policy making function of a city is governmental in nature. In agreeing with the holding of the Court of Civil Appeals concerning the matter in which the City of Haskell exercised this express power to provide a suitable water supply, the Supreme Court said (this express power) * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * rests largely in the discretion of its governing body, and that the City possesses the implied power to oppose the implementation of a project which its governing body, in the exercise of reasonable discretion, considers to be detrimental to the present or future water supply which the City is required by statute to provide for its inhabitants. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The courts will not regulate the exercise of such a power unless it is exercised in a manner clearly abuse thereof. * * *”
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.