Verner v. Muller’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1953
5 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 Verner v. Muller · Dick v. Scarborough · Bascom v. Oconee County · Boykin v. Springs
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the Constitution (section 6, article X) was to leave the legislature free to authorize counties and townships to establish and maintain public roads, buildings and bridges. The word ‘build’ may be employed in the sense of obtain, secure, or acquire, as well as the ordinary meaning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to authorize any county or township to levy a tax or issue bonds for any purpose except for educational purposes, to build and repair public roads, buildings and bridges,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Battle v. Willcox
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.