Harshman v. Bates County’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 569 · 1875
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1998 · most notably Norton v. Shelby County (1886), Douglass v. County of Pike (1879)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. North Missouri Central Railroad v. Linn County Court
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 14. The general assembly shall not authorize any county, city, or town to become a stockholder in or to loan its credit to any company, association, or corporation, unless two-thirds of the qualified voters of such county, city, or town, at a regular or special election to be held therein, shall assent thereto.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“$1,000.] United States oe America. [No. 65. “Bight-per-cent Bailroad Bond. “ County of Scotland.] [Twenty-five years. “ Know all men by these presents, that the county of Scotland, in the State of Missouri, acknowledges itself indebted to the Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska Railway Company, a corporation existing under and by virtue of the laws of the States of Missouri and Iowa, formed by consolidation of the Alexandria and Nebraska City Railroad Company (formerly Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company) of the State of .Missouri, and the Iowa Southern Railway Company of the State of Iowa, in the sum of 11,000, which sum the said county hereby promises to pay to the said Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska Railway Company, or bearer, at the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company in New York, on the thirty-first day of December, a.d. 1895, together with interest thereon from the thirty-first day of December, 1870, at the rate of eight per cent per annum, which interest shall be payable annually, in the city of New York, on the thirty-first day of December in each year, as the same shall become due, on the presentation of the coupons hereto annexed. This bond being issued under and pursuant to an order of the county court of said Scotland County, for subscription to the stock of the Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska Railway Company, as authorized by an act of the general assembly of the State of Missouri, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[h]ad counties alone been mentioned, there might have been no restriction as to cities and towns; because they are separate and distinct organizations, corporate in character, and often clothed with legislative functions.”
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.