French v. Dunn County’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2022
1 federal appellate · 5 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are, doubtless, powers vested in the county board which could not be delegated to any committee. Powers which are legislative in their character . . . must be exercised under the immediate authority of the board.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here can be no just claim that the committee did not act strictly within the scope of the authority conferred by the resolution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“purchase [of] a suitable farm for a county poor-farm, provided the cost thereof should not exceed $3,000.”
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.