State Ex Rel. Maner v. Leech’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2016
14 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 Bain Peanut Co. v. Pinson · Woodroof v. City of Nashville · First Nat. Bank of Memphis v. McCanless · Bennett v. Stutts · 23 Tenn. App. 374 - Burns v. Duncan
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“County government — Elected officers — Legislative body — Alternate forms of government. — The qualified voters of each county shall elect for terms of four years a legislative body, a county executive, a Sheriff, a Trustee, a Register, a County Clerk and an Assessor of Property. Their qualifications and duties shall be prescribed by the General Assembly.... ... Any county organized under the consolidated government provisions of Article XI, Section 9, of this Constitution shall be exempt from having a county executive and a county legislative body as described in this paragraph. The General Assembly may provide alternate forms of county government including the right to charter and the manner by which a referendum may be called. The new form of government shall replace the existing form if approved by a majority of the voters in the referendum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) If a vacancy occurs prior to the qualifying date 1 for the election of a county executive, the county legislative body shall appoint a county executive to serve until a county executive is elected in the regular August election. (2) If a vacancy occurs after the qualifying date for the election of a county executive, the county legislative body shall appoint a county executive to serve until a county executive is elected in the next succeeding general election or other county-wide election in such county. 2”
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.