State v. Caplan’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1977 · most notably State v. Auclair (1939), Bode v. Barrett (1952)
30 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 John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey · Packard v. Banton · Buck v. Kuykendall · Michigan Public Utilities Commission v. Duke
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be true that in some of the foregoing cases the right under discussion is assigned to the police power, rather than to the taxing power. But in our view, this makes no difference in the result. You may call the charge imposed a ‘fee,’ or you may call it a ‘tax;’ you may call the enactment imposing it a ‘police measure,’ or you may call it a ‘revenue measure;’ it makes no difference. The validity of the act in the respects here called in question is established. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Solberg v. Davenport
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.