Freeland v. Stillman’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1969
1 federal appellate · 8 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although a sehool district possesses corporate capacity, and is declared in the statutes to be a body corporate, it doesi not fall within the definition of a municipal corporation. A sehool district belongs in the same class as counties and townships, which ‘are denominated in the books and known to the law as quasi corporations, rather than as corporations proper. They possess some corporate functions and attributes, but they are primarily political subdivisions — agencies in the administration of civil government — and their coiporate functions! are granted to enable them more readily to perform their public duties.’ Beach v. Leahy, 11 Kan. 23 . Cities, towns, and villages are municipal corporations proper, and the distinction between municipal corporations and quasi corporations is dearly pointed out in the ease just cited. See, also, Eikenberry v. Township of Bazar, 32 Kan. 556 [ 31 Am. Rep. 198 ]; Marion Co. v. Riggs, 24 Kan. 255 ; Dill. Mun. Corp. § 20; 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 952. It is said that, in the broader sense, municipal corporations include all public corporations, including quasi corporations, sueb as counties, townships, and school districts, and the title of the act is referred to as an evidence that this signification was intended by the Legislature. The fact, however, that counties and townships were specifically named in connection with municipal corporations, forbids such an interpretation, and shows clearly that it was not the intention of the Legis”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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