Citizens' Bank of Louisiana v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis
164 U.S. 319 · 1896
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 40 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2001 · most notably Healy Nh v. Ratta (1934), Di Giovanni v. Camden Fire Insurance (1935)
76 federal appellate · 40 district · 7 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 Trustees v. Greenough · Davidson v. New Orleans · Mayor v. Cooper · Walter v. Northeastern Railroad
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the bill is to restrain certain tax assessors and tax collectors from collecting taxes for specific years, and, if the amount of such taxes does not confer jurisdiction, it is, from the nature of things, impossible for a court to foresee what, if any, taxes may be assessed in the future.””
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.