State Ex Rel. Harper v. McDavid’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Pittman v. Housing Authority (1942), The People v. Chi. Transit Authority (1945)
48 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 Krause v. Peoria Housing Authority · Williamson v. Housing Authority · State v. City of Tallahassee · Knoxville Housing Authority, Inc. v. City of Knoxville · McNulty v. Owens, Mayor
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has repeatedly said that it is competent for the legislature to make classifications and exemptions of certain properties from taxation for particular public purposes. We have also conceded power in the legislature to define a municipal purpose as contemplated by the provisions of the Constitution alluded to.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a municipal purpose is much broader in its scope than it was a generation ago. Under our system of jurisprudence, constitutional validity may be determined by practical operation and effect....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.