Steuart v. State Ex Rel. Dolcimascolo’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1977 · most notably 84 So. 2d 9 - State v. Inter-American Center Authority (1955), Saunders v. City of Jacksonville (1946)
26 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Rast v. Hulvey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Therefore, a claim for exemption under section 7 of article 10 of the constitution is not allowable unless, such claim is sustainable under the precise language of that section, which language no department of the state government, whether judicial, legislative, or executive, has authority to amend, add to, detract from, or alter, in favor of or against claimants not strictly entitled, or debarred, under the words of the Constitution itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Exemptions from taxation, whether stated in the Constitution or in statutes, are to be construed against the claimant and in favor of the taxing power in cases of doubt.”
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.