Schmeltzer v. Scheid’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Skelly Oil Company v. Johnson (1946), Koonce v. Woods (1947)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Towson v. Denson · Earle Improvement Co. v. Chatfield · Updegraff v. Marked Tree Lumber Co. · Brasher v. Taylor · Moore v. Morris
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by its express terms, applies only to persons who pay taxes under color of title, but its obvious . . . purpose was to encourage the payment of taxes and to protect persons who pay them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.