Taxing District of Brownsville v. Loague’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 493 · 1889
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1952 · most notably Deposit Bank of Frankfort v. Board of Councilmen of the City of Frankfort (1903), United States International Contracting Co v. Lamont (1894)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Meriwether v. Garrett · United States Harshman v. County Court of Knox Co. · John Jeter v. James Hewitt Melville Heron and Mary Conrad · A. B. Dick Co. v. Belke & Wagner Co.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Bes judicata may render straight that which is crooked, and black that which is white, facit ex curvo rectum, ex albo nigrum; Jeter v. Hewitt, 63 U. S. (22 How.) 352, 364 (16:345, 348); but where application is made to collect judgments by process not contained in themselves, and requiring, to be sustained, reference to the alleged cause of action upon which they are founded, the aid of the court should not be granted when upon the face of the record it appears, not that mere error supervened in the rendition of such judgments, but that they rest upon no cause of action whatever.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Mandamus lies to compel a party to do that which it is his duty to do without it. It confers no new authority, and the party to be coerced must have the power to perform the act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Res judicata may render straight that which is crooked, and black that which is white.” (Chief Justice Fuller speaking.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Campbell
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.