Lipscomb v. Lenon’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
April 1969
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crane v. Siloam Springs · Shibley v. Fort Smith · Butler v. Board of Directors of Fourche Drainage District · Matthews v. Kimball · Solomon v. Wharf Improvement District No. 1
Most-quoted passages
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“If it could be said that such an improvement is essential to the progress and prosperity of the city and suburban communities, the contribution which an auditorium makes to such prosperity is general to the entire community and not peculiar and special to the real property in the city and outlying contiguous territory. Whether the building of an auditorium would be beneficial rather than harmful to the real property immediately contiguous thereto would be wholly problematical and dependent upon many contingencies, notably the character of the architecture and construction and the nature of the assemblies gathered there, etc. Certain it is there is no such similarity between an improvement district for the construction of an auditorium and improvement districts for the construction of roads, bridges, wharves, levees, drains, etc., as would bring the former in the category of the latter. In the former the benefit, at most, to the real property can only be incidental and of the most remote and general character, while in the latter, it must be, and is, a peculiar and special benefit to the real property taxed for its construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Even if it could be said with any plausibility that the building ■ of an auditorium directly and specially benefited the real estate situated within the city of Little Bock, it would strain the wildest imagination to the breaking' point to conceive bow sncb an improvement would be of any direct or special benefit to the real estate situated in Fourche mountains or in Fourche bottoms or to any other real property lying in those country portions of the township included in the district — those beyond the limits of the city of Little Rock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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