State v. . Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Adams v. North Carolina Department of Natural & Economic Resources (1978), Carolina-Virginia Coastal Highway v. Coastal Turnpike Authority (1953)
27 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 Barbier v. Connolly · Soon Hing v. Crowley · May v. Sloan · State v. . Partlow · Finnegan v. Noerenberg
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All real estate brokers in the State are required to pay the State privilege tax and all are subject to the same general laws in the conduct of their trade; yet, if the provisions of the instant act be upheld, a real estate broker who had paid his State tax would be deprived of the privilege of carrying on his trade in more than one-third of the counties in the State. For example, a broker seeking to sell a farm lying in two counties would be merely an honest business man conducting a legitimate business if the transaction were completed on one corner of the farm, but would be criminal if it were completed at another point on the same farm. The fatal shortcoming of the 1927 Real Estate Brokers' Act * * * was not so much that it was a local act as it was that the act discriminated within a class, to-wit; the real estate brokers licensed to do business throughout the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McIntyre v. Clarkson“The word trade is often used in a more restricted sense of mean either the particular occupation of a mechanic or a merchant; but where it is used in defining the power to tax its broadest signification is given to it and it is interpreted as comprehending not only all who are engaged in buying and selling merchandise but all whose occupation or business it is to manufacture and sell the products of their plants. It includes in this sense any employment or business embarked in for gain or profit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“* * * (A)s to the particular types of legislation described in Art. II, sec. 29, of our Constitution, all legislative enactments are to be classified in one of two classes: (1) `local, private or special' acts which are `void,' or (2) `general laws' which the General Assembly has `power to pass.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McIntyre v. Clarkson
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.