Supervisors v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 305 · 1881
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973), Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego (1981)
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Case of the State Freight Tax Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania · People v. Weaver · Railroad Companies v. Schutte · People Ex Rel. Dunkirk & Fredonia Railroad v. Cassity
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The general proposition must be conceded, that in a statute which contains invalid or unconstitutional provisions, that which is unaffected by these provisions, or which can stand without them, must remain. If the valid and invalid are capable of separation, only the latter are to be disregarded.” Supervisors v. Stanley, 105 U. S. 305 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““What is there to render it void as to a shareholder in a national bank, who owes no debts which he can deduct from the assessed value of his shares? The denial of this right does not affect him. He pays the same amount of tax that he would if the law gave him the right of deduction. He would be in no better condition if the law expressly authorized him to make the deduction. What legal interest has he in a question which only affects others? Why should he invoke the protection of the act of congress in a case where he has no rights to protect? Is a court to sit and decide abstract questions of law in which the parties before it show no interest, and which, if decided either way, affect no right of theirs?” Supervisors v. Stanley, 105 U. S. 305 , 311, 26 L. Ed. 1014 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the assessors habitually and intentionally, or by some rule prescribed by themselves, or by some one whom they were bound to obey, assessed the shares of the national banks higher in proportion to their actual value than other moneyed capital generally, then there is ground for recovery.”
3 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.