Pethoud v. Gage County’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
April 1988
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Otoe 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"He [a county surveyor] has no part in the management of the county or its affairs. He can aid no other officer of the county in the matter of contracts or official services. He is not one of the cogs in the wheel that turns the affairs of the county. He is simply an official designated by law to do a certain class .of work for the public. In name he is a county officer, but... [although] [h]is office brings him within the technical letter of the statute ... his official functions leave him clearly without its spirit and purpose.” Pethoud v. Gage County, 83 Neb. 497, 500 , 120 N.W. 155 (1909).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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