Parkersburg v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 487 · 1882
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 19 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 303 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1989 · most notably Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989), Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
86 federal appellate · 19 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Loan Association v. Topeka · Davis v. Old Colony Railroad · Morville v. American Tract Society
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 303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such a case, the party receiving may be made to refund to the person from whom it has received property for the unauthorized purpose, the value of that which it has actually received.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““The right which the plaintiffs so have to call on the city to render an account of the property is one which can be properly adjudicated in this suit in equity. It involves the taking of an account, the sale, under the direction of the court, of what remains of the property, and the ascertainment of the proper charges to be allowed to the city against the moneys it has received and against the proceeds of sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There was no provision in the Constitution of West Virginia of 1862 authorizing the levying of taxes to be used to aid private persons in conducting a private manufacturing business. This being so, the Legislature has no power to enact the Act of 1868.” Parkersburg v. Brown, 106 U.S. 487, 501 , 1 S.Ct. 442 , 27 L.Ed 238 (1883).”
1 later decision 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.