State v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1985
23 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Dudley v. Northampton Street Railway Co. · Fort Smith v. Scruggs · City of Terre Haute v. Kersey · Daily v. Swope · Kersey v. City of Terre Haute
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘1 There is nothing unreasonable in such taxation, so long as it is not discriminatory nor so heavy as to be oppressive, for the use of vehicles tends to the detriment of streets, and in fact that is the occasion for their construction and maintenance. The tax is not, accurately speaking, on the vehicle, but on the privilege of using it in the street, and hence the tax is not open to attack as double taxation. Neither can it be assailed as an unwarranted interference with the right of citizens to use the public thoroughfares. Taxes of this kind are aften graduated according to the number of horses required to haul the vehicle, or the number of passengers it carries; and there is no constitutional objection to this classification so long as it keeps within reasonable bounds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all of the same class are taxed alike, and this fulfills the requirement of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“graduated by a standard fixed by the legislature,”
1 later decision 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.