Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Traust Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 district · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 272 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Payne v. Tennessee (1991), District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
5 federal appellate · 15 district · 145 state decisions — followed in 40 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Brown v. Maryland · Edye v. Robertson · Hawes v. Oakland · State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al.
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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As the States cannot tax the powers, the operations, or the property of the United States, nor the means which they employ to carry their powers into execution, so it has been held that the United States have no power under the Constitution to tax either the instrumentalities or the property of a State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Necessarily the power to declare a law unconstitutional is always exercised with reluctance, but the duty to do so in a proper case cannot be declined and must be discharged in accordance with a deliberate judgment of the tribunal in which the validity of the enactment is directly drawn in question.””
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.