Jackson v. O'Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1976
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Schmidt v. City of Indianapolis · City Council v. Kelly · Welsbach Street Lighting Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Lee v. Van Pelt
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is quite well settled that as a general principle the amount which may be required under an ordinance . . . must be limited and reasonably measured by the costs of the issuance of the license and the costs incident to regulating and inspecting the activity for which the license is required.”
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.