Woolfolk v. Randolph County’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2007
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 Wolcott v. Lawrence County
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 2778. Contracts—Execution of by Counties, Towns, etc.—Form of Contract.—No county, city, town, village, school township, school district or other municipal corporation shall make any contract, unless the sam.e shall be within the scope of its powers or bo expressly authorized by law, nor unless such contract be made upon a consideration wholly to be performed or executed subsequent to the making of the contract; and such contract, including the consideration, shall be in writing and dated when made, and shall be subscribed by the parties thereto, or their agents authorized by law and duly appointed and authorized in writing.””
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.