Haney v. Cofran’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1998
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Brown v. Russell · Kimbrough v. Barnett · City of San Antonio v. Micklejohn · National Contracting Co. v. Hudson River Water Power Co. · Roth v. State ex rel. Kurtz
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tenure of any office not herein provided for may be declared by law; when not so declared such office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment, but the legislature shall not create any office the tenure of which shall be longer than four years.” (Art. 15, § 2.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no end of authority that a policeman is a public officer, (citing cases). ... In many respects a policeman is a municipal officer, but in other and important respects the legislature and the courts have raised him out of the class of a mere subordinate or employee like a field man of a local department of health , (Jagger v. Green, 90 Kan. 153 , 133 Pac. 174 ), or a cell-house man at the penitentiary (Jones v. Bot-kin, 92 Kan. 242 , 139 Pac. 1198 ).” (p. 334.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A policeman is a conservator of the peace and exercises many of the functions of sovereignty, and important duties are imposed upon him by the Legislature. * * * ””
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.