Rummel v. Musgrave’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2015
7 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 Lawrence v. State Tax Commission · United States v. City of Detroit · City of Detroit v. Murray Corp. of America · Phillips Chemical Company v. Dumas Independent School District · United States v. Township of Muskegon
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiffs' possessory rights [in mines] by virtue of their leases with the United States of America are such an interest as is subject to taxation by the State of Colorado”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“separate and distinct ownership of the federal government.”
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.