State v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1999
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on George Priest v. Board of Trustees of the Town of Las Vegas · Lane v. Watts · Shaw v. Kellogg · Pablo Maese v. Binger Herman · Himmelmann v. Steiner
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think that the state had the power to tax the defendants’ “claim to” the land for the years 1913 and 1914, without laying any tax upon the property of the government, in violation of the Enabling Act prohibiting the imposition of taxes upon government property.”
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.