Varney v. Justice’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State ex inf. Major v. Kansas City (1911), Coleman v. Town of Eutaw (1908)
55 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the language gives a direction as to the manner of exercising a power, it was intended that the power should' be exercised in the manner directed, and in no.other manner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. Wright
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.