Martin v. Barbour’s Empirical Analysis
140 U.S. 634 · 1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2007 · most notably Missouri ex rel. Barrett v. Kansas Natural Gas Co. (1924), Ballard v. Hunter (1907)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Robert Parker and Miles White v. William Overman · Martin v. Barbour
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The state is bound by the act of her officers in placing the lot on the tax books for the years 1885 and 1886, and receiving from the appellees the taxes for those years. Equity will treat the transaction as a waiver of the prior supposed forfeiture, and will regard the tax paid from 1885 and 1886 as so much paid toward redemption, and will permit the payment of the rest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The state is bound by the act of her officers in placing the lot on the taxbooks for the years 1885 and 1886, and receiving from the appellees the taxes for these years. Equity will treat the transaction as a waiver of the prior supposed forfeiture, and will regard the tax paid for 1885 and 1886 as so much paid toward redemption, and will permit the payment of the rest.””
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.