Yazoo Co v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 174 · 1889
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 11 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1981), McCullough v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1898)
52 federal appellate · 11 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Vicksburg Co v. Dennis · Bailey v. Magwire · Frantz v. Dobson
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the preamble is no part of the act, and cannot enlarge or confer powers, nor control the words of the act ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Exemptions from taxation are regarded as in derogation of the sovereign authority and of common right, and, therefore, not to be extended beyond the exact and express requirements of the language used, construed strictissimi juris””
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.