State ex rel. Becker v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1961
17 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 Rose v. City of Gypsum · Board of County Commissioners v. City of Wellington · Board of County Commissioners v. Radley · Kretchmar v. City of Atchison · Wichita Water Co. v. City of Wichita
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constitutional and statutory exemptions from taxation of all municipally-owned property are clear and unequivocal. To write into these exemptions an exception as to all municipal property owned and used by a city in its proprietary capacity so as to subject that property to taxation would be a complete departure from the judicial function of interpreting and applying existing law to pending litigation, and a usurpation ‘of the functions of the legislature which has exclusive power over the subject of taxation. If the vast growth of municipal ownership of public utilities which has transpired in the last 33 years since this court held that the waterworks plant of the city of Wellington was exempt from taxation (citation) calls for a different rule today, as indeed it may, the legislature will have to prescribe it.” (p. 572.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is true, of course, that a Kansas municipality has a dual corporate capacity—one as a governmental agency, and another as a proprietary institution with which the state at large has no immediate concern (citations). Matters of police, health and sanitation, and the like, are instances of the former; the operation of municipally-owned electric power plants and similar public utilities are good examples of the latter, (citations).” (p. 571.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the property described in this section, to the extent herein limited, shall be exempt from taxation: . . . Sixth: All property belonging exclusively to any . . . city . . . except lands bid off for counties or cities at tax sales.””
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.