Stevenson v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably City of Ingleside v. Stewart (1977), Vinson v. Burgess (1989)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 Graves v. Horn · Foard County v. Sandifer · 40 Tex. Civ. App. 177 - City of Houston v. Glover · Tackett v. Middleton · Burleson v. Bledsoe
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The term ’debt’ as used in said clause of the Constitution ‘means any pecuniary obligation imposed by contract, except such as were, at the date of the contract, within the lawful and reasonable contemplation of the parties, to be satisfied out of the current revenues for the year, or out of some fund then within the immediate control of the corporation.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[N]o debt for any purpose shall ever be incurred in any manner by any city or county unless provision is made, at the time of creating the same, for levying and collecting a sufficient tax to pay the interest thereon and provide at least two per cent (2%) as a sinking fund; * * *."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Legislature, under its general lawmaking power, has the authority to regulate all matters pertaining to the levying and assessing of the annual ad valorem taxes for general county purposes, and to prescribe the time for their payment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vinson v. Burgess
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.