Getzen v. Sumter County’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Amos v. Mathews (1930), Weinberger v. Board of Public Instruction (1927)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 State ex rel. Clarkson v. Philips · State ex rel. Young v. Duval County · Consolidated Land Co. v. Tyler · Willis v. Special Road & Bridge District No 2 · State v. County of Gadsden
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Constitution vests "the judicial power of the state" in designated courts, each having jurisdiction of defined classes of cases... . This power is the means provided by the Constitution for authoritatively determining in litigated cases the meaning and intent of pertinent provisions of the Constitution itself ... and whether executive or administrative action ... accords with the Constitution ... so that the court may give appropriate effect to the applicable governing law in adjudicating rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The proceedings provided for bonds bearing six per cent interest per annum, but if the bonds can be sold as contemplated by law at a lower rate of interest, there appears to be no legal objection to the lower rate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unreasonable with reference to the organic property rights of taxpayers, and to the just requirements of the public purpose contemplated.”
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.