Potter v. Lainhart’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably Hiers v. Mitchell (1928), Hayes v. Walker (1907)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Anderson v. Township of Santa Anna in De Witt Illinois · Yesler v. City of Seattle · Bolles v. Town of Brimfield · Otoe County v. Baldwin · Young v. Township of Clarendon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The word ‘Issued’ as applied to bonds usually includes delivery, but it does not invariably do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.