Sheidley v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1955
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.
Relationships
Relies on Hannibal v. Marion County · Witt v. City of San Francisco · Walker v. Linn County
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Independence is the county seat of Jackson County, and as terms of the circuit court of said county are, by law, held at the City of Kansas, there can be no question but that the act above quoted confers the power on the county court of said county to build a courthouse and jail in said city, and this power thus expressly given carries with it every incidental power necessary to the execution of the power expressly conferred,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The implied power to acquire the ground is as plainly given as the express power to erect the buildings. In the construction of the most naked powers to which the strictest rules of construction are applied, there is no better settled rule than this, that every power necessary to the execution of an express power is plainly implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to build and keep in repair county buildings,”
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.