Frederick v. Douglas County’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 26 Wis. 2d 43 - State Ex Rel. Sonneborn v. Sylvester (1965), State ex rel. Durner v. Huegin (1901)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Nelson Elliott v. Samuel Swartwout · Russell v. Tate · Mayor of Macon v. Huff · State v. Russell · Richards v. State
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counties are, at most, but local organizations, which, for the purposes of civil administration, are invested with a few functions characteristic of a corporate existence. They are local subdivisions of the state, created by the sovereign power of the state, of its own sovereign will, without the particular solicitation, consent, or concurrent action of the people who inhabit them. . . . They are purely auxiliaries of the state; and to the general statutes of the state they owe their creation, and the statutes confer upon them all the powers they possess, prescribe all the duties they owe, and impose all liabilities to- which the}'' are subject. Considered with respect to the limited number of their corporate powers, the bodies above named rank low down in the scale or grade of corporate existence, and hence have been frequently termed ‘qwcm-corporations.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““There are many cases which hold that, as between man and man, money paid voluntarily, with knowledge of all the facts, and without fraud or duress, cannot be recovered merely on account of ignorance or mistake of the law. . . . This is simply the doctrine of voluntary payment, It is frequently applied to the payment of illegal taxes. It is founded upon the general principle that a man may do what he will with his own. He may give it away, or buy his peace; and, if he does so with knowledge of the facts, he is generally remediless.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Neacy v. Drew“as between [person] and [person], money paid voluntarily, with knowledge of all the facts, and without fraud or duress, cannot be recovered merely on account of ignorance or mistake of the law.”
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.