Ferguson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2000
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And while the precise point for decision here was not the precise point for decision in Lemon v. Peyton, 64 Miss. 164 , the test as to disqualifying interest is held to be as in the cases we have approved, A member of a board of aldermen of a municipal corporation sustains no such relation to that municipal corporation as any officer of a private corporation for pecuniary gain does to such private corporation. A municipal corporation is an auxiliary of government, administering within its sphere governmental functions for the good of the local community. So far, then, as their mere legal right to act on the petition was concerned, we think that they had that legal right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cashin v. Murphy
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.