McKee v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1951
11 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 Kelly v. Moore · McElhaney v. Gilleland · Morrow v. Wood · Drake v. Webb · Coleman v. Ormond
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, the duty, for the disregard or violation of which complaint is made, or in reference to which the wrongful act is committed, must he one imposed or authorized by law. A mere private act, not pertaining to any function the law casts on him, although done by one holding a bonded office, imposes jno liability on his sureties. Addison on Contracts, § 1117. ‘For acts not within the line of official duty and authority, not under color of office, he may incur personal, not official responsibility; and in that personal responsibility, the sureties on his - official bond are not involved.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burge v. Scarbrough
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.