State v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
July 1953
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A special law that confers the power upon a particular municipality to purchase property at a tax sale to the exclusion of all others would be void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this act only affected the city in its political capacity, and therefore it is not violative of article eleven, section 8, of the Constitution.”
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.