Hanson v. Griffiths’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1993
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Mendoza Fur Dyeing Works, Inc. v. Taylor · People v. Brooklyn Garden Apartments, Inc. · Franklin Society for Home Building & Savings v. Bennett · In re Bishara
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““taxes are burdens of a pecuniary nature imposed generally upon individuals or property for defraying the cost of governmental functions, while, on the other hand, charges are sustainable as fees where they are imposed upon a person to defray or help defray the cost of particular services rendered for his account.” Matter of Hanson v. Griffiths, 204 Misc. 736, 738 , 124 N.Y.S.2d 473 (1953), aff’d 283 App. Div. 662 , 127 N.Y.S.2d 819 (1954).”
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.