Harkins v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1950
11 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 Hagar v. · Mound City Land & Stock Co. v. Miller · State ex rel. Saunders v. Kohnke · Wilson v. King's Lake Drainage & Levee District
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cost incident to such improvements is imposed upon or assessed against the lands benefited in the nature of an assessment or betterment tax , such as is authorized by cities and towns for the improvement and maintenance of streets, sidewalks, storm sewers, and drains. (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Hollis“the right of assessment as herein provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Hollis
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.