Supervisors v. Galbraith’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 214 · 1878
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1940 · most notably Norton v. Shelby County (1886), Kelley v. Town of Milan (1888)
13 federal appellate · 12 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 New York Life Insurance Company v. Statham et al. · Glenny v. Langdon · Board of Commissioners v. Aspinwall · Meyer v. The City of Muscatine · Moran et al. v. The Commissioners of Miami 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•The statutory requirement in this particular is only directory. The defect is one of form, and not of substance. The irregularity was committed by the servants of the county, and the county is estopped to take advantage of it.””
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.