Toombs v. Sharkey’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Clark v. State (1934), Loew v. Hagerle Brothers (1948)
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 Reynolds v. Collier · Town of Longview v. City of Crawfordsville · State ex rel. Foreman v. Wheatley · Cox v. Wallace · Prothro & Kendall v. Orr
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.
“Certain it is that the Legislature is not warranted in making an arbitrary and indiscriminate classification without regard to its relation to the thing to be effected. In other words, the classification must be germane to the subject-matter of legislation... . ( 140 Miss. at 691 , 106 So. at 274 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Are the characteristics set out, to wit, counties in a levee district, and counties in a levee district paying a cotton tax for levee purposes, related to or connected with the prosecution of crime? ( 140 Miss. at 691 , 106 So. at 274 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to land overflowed by backwaters of the Mississippi.”
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.