Sweeney v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Wood v. Strickland (1975), Dunlap v. Dunlap (1930)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Edes v. Boardman · State v. Corron · Stevens v. Rowe · Dow v. Electric Co. · Waldron v. Berry
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the officer makes an erroneous preliminary decision that he has jurisdiction and then acts in pursuance of the error, liability depends upon his right to pass upon the jurisdictional question. If he goes outside his general authority, he is not protected for the consequences of his action. If within his general authority his erroneous exercise of it is due to special reasons of jurisdictional invalidity, he is protected. In the one case he is not called upon to act, in the other he is.”
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.