Cathcart v. Comstock’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2009
23 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We apprehend there is no constitutional objection to the two counties remaining united for judicial purposes, notwithstanding the organization of the new county for •other purposes. Such acts have often been passed, and we are not aware that they have ever been questioned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legislature is prohibited from enacting any special or private laws... [f]or incorporating any city, town or village ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“do not usually possess corporate powers under special charters.”
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.