Meriwether v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 472 · 1880
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 15 district · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 431 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), United States v. Anderson (1926)
72 federal appellate · 15 district · 196 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Dollar Savings Bank v. United States · Rees v. City of Watertown · United States v. Railroad Co.
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 431 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having tlio sole power to authorize the tax, it must equally possess the sole power to prescribe the means by which the tax shall be collected and to designate the officers through whom its will shall be enforced. ⅞ ⅜ * Tn the distribution oí the jiowers o£ government in this country into three departments, the power of taxation falls to the legislative.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ 3. The power of taxation is legislative and cannot be exercised otherwise than under the authority of the legislature.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““In its streets, wharves, cemeteries, hospitals, courthouses, and other public buildings, the corporation' has no proprietary rights distinct from the trust for the public. It holds them for public use, and to no other use can they bo appropriated without special legislative sanction. It would be a perversion of that trust to apply them to other uses. The courts can have nothing to do with them, unless appealed to on behalf of the public to prevent their diversion from the public use.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.