Terry v. Edgin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2022
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Stovall v. Denno · Jones v. State Highway Commission · Templeton v. Linn County · Henderson v. Twin Falls County · Roxana Petroleum Co. v. Cope
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The operative feature of this statute is that it is permissive in nature. The only duties borne by the county in connection with the street on which the accident in this case occurred were voluntarily assumed pursuant to a contract executed under the authority of 69 O.S.1971, § 603. A county is acting in its proprietary capacity when it performs duties which it has voluntarily assumed, Granite Oil Securities v. Douglas County, 67 Nev. 388 , 219 P.2d 191 (1950), Henderson v. Twin Falls County, 56 Idaho 124 , 50 P.2d 597 (1933).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One, if not the principal reason assigned by the majority opinion for upholding the right of the injured plaintiff to maintain suit against the defendant-county is the theory that, because a city would be held liable under the same circumstances . .. the county should also be held liable... . However, cities and counties are fundamentally different and the fundamental differences between the two serve as the basis for holding [the county not liable].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.