Barnum v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2020
21 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 Clark v. Warner · Codington County v. Board of County Com'rs · County of Codington v. Board of County Commissioners · Board of Com'rs v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. · Carothers v. Wheeler
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From all decisions of the board of county commissioners upon matters properly before it, there shall be allowed an appeal to the circuit court by any person aggrieved....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. Tobin
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.