J. A. Tobin Construction Co. v. Weed’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Travelers Indemnity Company v. Barnes (1976), Massey v. District Court in & for Tenth Judicial Dist. (1973)
2 federal appellate · 46 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.
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.
““The entire chapter clearly indicates a legislative intent to impose a tax in the amount levied upon purchases of tangible personal property at retail, such tax to be either in the nature of an addition to the sales price and collected by the seller if he is a licensed vendor as defined in the act, or a tax to be paid by the consumer when the seller of the merchandise is not a ‘retailer’ or ‘vendor’ as those terms are defined by the statute.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consistent, harmonious and sensible effect to all its parts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On the purchase price paid or charged upon all sales and purchases of tangible personal property at retail....”
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.