Humbert v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 528 - White v. Davis (2003), Hopping v. Council of City of Richmond (1915)
45 state decisions — followed in 14 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 People ex rel. McCauley & Tevis v. Brooks · Ristine v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund · People ex rel. Becker v. Miner · Proll v. Dunn
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“object is to secure to the legislative department of the government the exclusive power of deciding how, when, and for what purposes the public funds shall be applied in carrying on the government.... [These provisions] had [their] origin in Parliament in the seventeenth century, when the people of Great Britain, to provide against the abuse by the king and his officers of the discretionary money power with which they were vested, demanded that the public funds should not be drawn from the treasury except in accordance with express appropriations therefor made by Parliament ...; and the system worked so well in correcting the abuses complained of, our forefathers adopted it, and the restraint imposed by it has become a part of the fundamental law of nearly every state in the Union. To the legislative department of the government is intrusted the power to say to what purpose the public funds shall be devoted in each fiscal year....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriation made by law”
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.