Wagoner v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
170 U.S. 588 · 1898
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Gromer v. Standard Dredging Co. (1912), Michigan Central Railroad v. Powers (1906)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Thomas v. Gay · Commissioners of Sinking Fund of Logan County Ky v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is sufficient to say that, prior to the passage of the act of March 5, 1895, there existed no power in the authorities of Canadian County to tax property within the attached reservation. Such authority was first given by that act, and could only be validly exercised on property subjected to its terms after its enactment.”
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.