Ritchie v. Franklin County’s Empirical Analysis
89 U.S. 67 · 1874
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1930
8 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
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“The bonds here were issued under a supposed authority, and no one interposed an objection. The taxpayers rested until the mischief was done and then tried to get relief. It is certainly not unjust to them that the Legislature should say, `You must pay for an expenditure which you saw incurred and could have prevented, but did not.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.