Davis v. Wayne County Court’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1962
18 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 Spilman v. City of Parkersburg · List v. City of Wheeling · 33 W. Va. 789 - Brannon v. County Court
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every citizen, high or low, learned or unlearned, is bound to take notice of and abide by all its provisions, and he can not enjoy the protection, privileges and Immunities it affords and then be heard to plead ignorance of its inhabitations. They who deal with the county authorities are charged with notice that such authorities are limited in their expenditures to the annual income derived from their power to levy taxes annually, and must make their contracts accordingly. To hold otherwise would place it in the power of such authorities to evade the constitutional limitation and bankrupt every county in the state.””
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.