People v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1969 · most notably University v. People (1878), McCain v. City of Des Moines (1899)
6 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Rumsey v. . the People · Lanning v. . Carpenter · Attorney General v. Board of Supervisors
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even in private associations, the acts of parties interested may often estop them from relying on legal objections which might have availed them if not waived. But in public affairs where the people have organized themselves under color of law into •the ordinary municipal bodies, and have gone on year after year raising taxes, making improvements, and exercising their usual franchises, their rights are properly regarded as depending quite as much on the acquiescence as on the regularity of their origin, and no ex post facto inquiry can be permitted to undo their corporate existence. Whatever may be the rights of individuals before such general acquiescence, the corporate standing of the community can be no longer open to question. . . . The exercise of jurisdiction being notorious and open in all .such cases, the state as "well as county and town taxes being all levied under it, there is no prin-' eiple which could justify any court at this late day in going back to inquire into the regularity of the law of 1857. ’ ’”
3 later decisions 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.