Cornell v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2005
4 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 People v. Galpern · Cain v. Skillin · 89 Cal. App. 47 - Noble v. City of Palo Alto · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Dollar Savings & Trust Co. v. Picard · State ex rel. Railroad Commission v. Great Northern Railway Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The duties of a public officer include, not only those which lie within the direct definition of the statute, but also those which are necessary to the accomplishment of the purpose of his office, even though they may be an incident of his main duties, where they promote the execution of a mandate of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kappelman v. State
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.