Forrest City v. Orgill’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably Yaffe Iron Metal Company v. Pulaski County (1934), Natural Gas & Fuel Corp. v. Norphlet Gas & Water Co. (1927)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Frick v. Brinkley · Texarkana v. Friedell · Ward Furniture Manufacturing Co. v. Isbell · Book v. Polk · Springfield Furniture Co. v. School District No. 4
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A municipal corporation may ratify the unauthorized acts of its agents or officers which are within the scope of the corporate powers, but not otherwise. * * * In order to have ratification, there must be some affirmative action by the proper officers, or some negative action, which of itself would amount to an approval of the matter in question.””
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.