Williams v. Wedding’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 1982 · most notably Ludwig v. Johnson (1932), Lakes v. Goodloe (1922)
56 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The taxes referred to in sections 157 and 158, supra, are the regular levies of taxes for ordinary governmental purposes upon all the property in the county, town or taxing district according to its value, and those sections do not embrace the taxes levied as special assessments in towns and cities for street improvements and in drainage districts for the construction of ditches and drains. Such assessments are not taxes within the meaning of the constitutional provisions, supra. Delker v. City of Owensboro, 61 S. W. 362 ; Lexington v. McQuillan’s Heirs, 9 Dana 512 ; Gosnell v. Louisville, 104 Ky. 201 ; Holzhauer v. City of Newport, 94 Ky. 407 ; Maddox v. City of Newport, 14 S. W. 957 ; Levi v. City of Louisville, 97 Ky. 409 ; McNaughton v. Louisville Industrial School, 19 Ky. L. R. 1695, 44 S. W. 38 ; Zable v. Orphans’ Home, 92 Ky. 89 . That local assessments made upon property for a local improvement, imposed by reason of local benefits, are not within the provisions of sections 157 and 158 of the constitution may now be considered as settled law in this State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““To guard against transgression of the high powers which we have delegated, We Declare that everything in this Bill of Rights is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate; and all laws contrary thereto, or contrary to this Constitution, shall be void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ludwig v. Johnson
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.