Wade v. Travis County’s Empirical Analysis
174 U.S. 499 · 1899
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1941 · most notably Blackstone v. Miller (1903), Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Burgess v. Seligman · Luther v. Borden · Riggs v. Johnson County · Gelpcke et al. v. The City of Dubuque · Bucher v. Cheshire 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power to do so [that, is to levy a tax sufficient to take care of the interest and sinking fund] could be derived from the legislature only. We understand that the provision required by the constitution means such fixed and definite arrangements for the levying and collecting of such tax as will become a legal right in favor of the bondholders of the bonds issued thereon, or in favor of any person to whom such debt might be payable. It is not sufficient that the municipal authorities should by the law be authorized to levy and collect a tax sufficient to produce a sinking fund greater than two per cent., but to comply with the constitution the law must, itself provide for a sinking fund not less than two per cent., or require of the municipal authorities to levy and collect a tax sufficient to produce the minimum prescribed by the constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Parsley““While, if tbis case had been brought before this court before the decision in the Mitchell County Case, we might have taken the view that was taken by the courts below, treating the question as one hitherto unsettled in that state, we find ourselves relieved of any embarrassment by the decision in the Mitchell County Case, which manifestly applies to this case and requires a reversal of their judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. “But assuming that the later case was intended to overrule the prior ones, and to lay down a different rule upon the subject, our conclusion would not be different””
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.