Mathison v. Brister’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1983
16 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 Bell's Gap Railroad v. Pennsylvania · Bell's Gap Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Vicksburg Bank v. Worrell · State v. Widman · Clarksdale Insurance Agency v. Cole
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may impose different specific taxes upon different trades and professions, and may vary the rates of excise upon various products, it may tax real estate and personal property in a different manner; .. . (Emphasis added). 145 So. 358 at 360 .”
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.