Crampton v. Zabriskie’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 601 · 1879
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 25 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 305 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951), Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923)
75 federal appellate · 25 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 Hitchcock v. Galveston · Cincinnati City v. Morgan · State ex rel. Dean v. Common Council of Madison
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 305 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of the right of resident tax-payers to invoke the interposition of a court of equity to prevent an illegal disposition of the moneys of the county or the illegal creation of a debt which they in common with other property-holders of the county may otherwise be compelled to pay, there is at this day no serious question.””
10 later decisions 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.