State ex rel. Leech v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2018
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 Lester v. Oldham · 34 Del. Ch. 439 - Wilmington Parking Authority v. Ranken · State Highway Commission of Ky. v. King · Tennessee Department of Human Services v. Vaughn · State ex rel. Wilson v. Bush
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.
“(1) failure to obtain competitive bids before purchasing materials, supplies, and equipment; (2) that he knowingly permitted county equipment, materials and supplies to be used by private individuals for private purposes in violation of T.C.A. § 54-7-202, that makes such an act by a county road superintendent a misdemeanor subject to fine or imprisonment or both; (3) that defendant permitted county employees to work for private individuals for private purposes during the same hours they were being paid by Lincoln County; (4) that the defendant misused county employees to dispense personal favors, illegally improve private property and for his own personal benefit; (5) that he used his office to discriminate against citizens who did not politically support him; and (6) that he did not maintain adequate records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Tjhere was clear and convincing evidence adduced that defendant knowingly and wilfully permitted Lincoln County equipment to be used by Wright Paving Company in violation of Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-7-202 and knowingly and wil-fully permitted a county employee to work for Wright Paving Company at the same time that the was being paid by Lincoln County. Those acts together with his failure to comply with his legal duty to purchase and contract for items in excess of fifteen hundred dollars upon competitive bids require that we enter a judgment of ouster.”
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.