Terrell v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Iley v. Hughes (1958), Guynes v. Galveston County (1993)
56 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.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the suit had been filed by other counsel employed by the county in nowise relieved the county attorney of his duty to prosecute that suit, nor did it deprive him of his privilege to discharge that duty. It being' his duty to institute such proceedings, it was no less his duty to prosecute a like proceeding if instituted by another. While the commissioners’ court might employ counsel to assist the county attorney in the performance of this duty, it had not the authority under the law to displace him from his position and rightful authority under the law as an officer of that county.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The commissioners’ court undoubtedly hás' the right to cause suits to be instituted in the name of and for the benefit of the county, and except where a concurrent right to do the same thing, or where an exclusive right in a specified case or cases is conferred upon some other tribunal or some other officer of the government, the commissioners’ court must be deemed to be the quasi executive head of the county, vested with exclusive power to determine when a suit shall be instituted in the name of and for the benefit of the county.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When it shall come to the knowledge of any district or county attorney that any officer in his district or county, intrusted with the collection or safe-keeping of any public funds, is 'in any manner whatsoever neglecting or abusing the trust confided in him, or is in any way failing to discharge his duties under the law, he shall institute such proceedings as are necessary to compel the performance of such duties by such officer, and to preserve and protect the public interests.””
2 later decisions 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.