Swingley v. Riechoff’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2019
10 state decisions
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 Catlin v. Mills · Federal Land Bank v. Newsom · Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Rushing · City of Port Townsend v. Eisenbeis · Denman v. Steinbach
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The government's lien for taxes is based upon express statutory provision, and is a perpetual lien against which no statute of limitations can successfully be interposed.”
2 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.