Absher v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2015
9 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 State Ex Rel. Chilcutt v. Thatch · City of Joplin v. Jasper County · Williams v. Riley · Jacobs v. Leggett · Contracting Plumbers Ass'n v. City of St. Louis
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.
“[wjhatever annoyance ... plaintiffs . .. may have felt because of the actions of the board of aldermen and the treasurer by their interpretation of the involved statutes was not a sufficient basis for the exercise of the court’s jurisdiction. A mere difference of opinion or disagreement or argument on a legal question affords inadequate ground for invoking the judicial power.”
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.