State v. Wynne’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably United States v. Texas (1941), State v. Mauritz-Wells Co. (1943)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 Price v. United States · United States v. State of Oklahoma · Home Insurance Co of New York v. State of New York · New York v. Maclay · Spokane County v. United States
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The burden of levying taxes rests on the Legislature, and that body has plenary power of prescribing the mode of taxation to raise revenue; and the specification of certain objects and subjects of taxation in the Constitution does not prevent it from passing laws requiring other subjects and objects to be taxed, unless expressly prohibited by the Constitution. Section 17 of Article 8, Constitution, Vernon's Ann. St." State v. Wynne, 134 Tex. 455 , 133 S.W.2d 951, 958 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The rule is generally accepted in this State that all property rights acquired and held, and all contracts made, are subject to the authority of the State to levy its taxes and collect its revenues for the support of the government. State for Use of Delta County Levee Improvement Dist. No. 1 v. Bank of Mineral Wells, Tex.Civ.App., 251 S.W. 1107 , writ refused; Preston v. Anderson County Levee Improvement Dist. No. 2, Tex.Civ.App., 261 S.W. 1077 , writ refused; 9 Tex.Jur., pp. 549, 550, § 114." State v. Wynne, 134 Tex. 455 , 133 S.W.2d 951, 956 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Property used in a business may be constitutionally subjected to a lien for an excise on the business although it is not owned by the person carrying on the business. The owner is not only chargeable with a knowledge of the law in respect thereto, but he is presumed to know the business there carried on, and to have let the property with knowledge that it might become encumbered by a tax imposed upon such business.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rope
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.