City of New Orleans v. John Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
180 U.S. 185 · 1901
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Swift & Co. v. United States (1928), United States v. Ju Toy (1905)
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCity of New Orleans v. Fisher (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Root v. Woolworth · William Oliver and Micajah Williams v. Robert Piatt · New Orleans v. Warner · Evers v. Watson · Laing v. Rigney
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under the law, the school taxes carried ten per cent interest per annum from the day they became delinquent. It was a penalty for non-payment of the taxes. This interest, or penalty, for delayed payment of school taxes, formed no part of the city's proper revenues. The city in collecting the same was acting as a trustee for the school board. Delay in payment of taxes operated to the prejudice, not of the city, but of the school fund and its creditors. We are unable to find any authority in law or morals for the city to appropriate to itself this interest. To allow such an appropriation would be to reward the city for its own negligence in the collection of the taxes due the school fund. We fully agree with the master that `the interest, as a mere accessory of the principal, belongs to the same person to whom the principal belongs.'" [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where interest is sought by way of damages for delay, courts of equity exercise a certain discretion as to its allowance.”
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.