Rector v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2012
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.
Relationships
Relies on Brentwood Liquors Corp. of Williamson Cty. v. Fox · Fountain City Sanitary District v. Knox County Election Commission · Townsend v. Ray · 4 Smith & H. 269 - Haggard v. Gallien · Whedbee v. Godsey
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhere there is no general state law which is mandatorily applicable, the cases recognize that the General Assembly has almost unlimited discretion to enact private legislation affecting the structure and organization of local governmental units.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There can be no question that a utility district such as that involved here is a public, municipal corporation.”) Additionally, Tenn.Code Ann. § 7-82-301(a)(1)(A) states that a utility district is a”
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.