Meredith v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1992
7 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 Skaggs v. Fyffe, Judge · Pulaski County v. Richardson, Co. Treasurer · Fyfe v. Hardin County Board of Education · Royster, Clerk v. Brock · Stieritz v. Kaufman
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the specific case of orders establishing library districts, we have held that the judicial remedy is to be invoked by appeal from the order. * * * If the order here involved was erroneous or made without proper consideration of the sufficiency of the petition, the remedy was by appeal — not by rescission. ⅜ ⅜ ⅝» “Since we are holding that the fiscal court had no authority to rescind its order establishing the library district, and since there was no appeal taken from that order, the sufficiency of the petition was not entitled to be questioned in this action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Bell
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.