Sun Cab Co. v. Cloud’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Hammond v. Lancaster (1950), State Center, LLC v. Lexington Charles Ltd. Partnership (2014)
51 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 The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantationss v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Board of Liquidation v. McComb · Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. v. United States · Gilmore v. Waples · Crawford v. Gilchrist
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The objection that the complainants as taxpayers lack sufficient interest to bring the suit is answered to some extent by the conclusions just announced. If the subject-matter is at all within the cognizance of a court of equity, as we conclude it is, if that court may be resorted to for prevention of a popular vote which would be void because based upon insufficient petitions, then, according to the settled practice, taxpayers interested in avoiding the waste of funds derived from taxation which would be involved in conducting the void referendum may make application to the court for the remedy...." 162 Md. at 426-27 (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... if the referendum should proceed upon the [invalid] petitions ..., the taxpayers will be put to wrongful expense for the publication of the referendum and the printing of it on the ballots of the next general election....”
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.