Miely v. Metzger’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1963
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 City of Topeka v. Dwyer · Horner v. City of Atchison · Rural High School District No. 1 ex rel. Farmer v. Davis · Wakefield v. Patterson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The code provision cited did not authorize the plaintiff to question the legality of the corporate organization. The state alone can question the existence of the district as a corporate entity and its right to exercise corporate power.” (p. 805.)”
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.