Jackson Township v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1933 · most notably Middleton v. Greeson (1886), Honey Creek School Township v. Barnes (1889)
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 Carmichael v. Lawrence · McLaughlin v. Shelby Township, Jefferson Co. · Sims v. McClure
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the action had been brought against the latter corporation” (that is, the school township) “we might possibly have held that the contract sued on, although apparently executed in the name of the civil township, was in fact, the contract of the school township, for the reason that the contract, upon its face, was a promise to pay for certain property which the school corporation only had the right to purchase.””
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.