Ward v. Piper’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ralls County Court v. United States · City of Galena v. Amy · United States Harshman v. County Court of Knox Co. · Voorhies v. Mayor of Houston · Meyer v. Porter
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.
““The fact that the interest coupons were merged in judgments does not affect the character of the indebtedness. It will not excuse the failure of the township officers to apply moneys raised for such interest on the indebtedness in its new form, nor deprive the holder of the indebtedness of his remedy to compel such application.” (77 S. W. text 700). See also Board of Commrs. v. People, 64 Pac. text 678.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.