Gaud v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Joytime Distributors & Amusement Co. v. State (1999), Duke Power Co. v. South Carolina Public Service Commission (1985)
37 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 J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · Sarlls, City Clerk v. State, Ex Rel. · Clarke v. South Carolina Public Service Authority · Moseley v. Welch · Ex parte Burtis
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The General Assembly shall provide by general laws for the organization and classification of municipal corporations. The powers of each class shall be defined so that no such corporation shall have any powers or be subject to any restrictions other than all corporations of the same class. Cities and towns now existing under special charters may reorganize under the general laws of the State, and when so reorganized their special charters shall cease and determine.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he general doctrine prohibiting the delegation of legislative authority has no application to the vesting in political subdivisions of powers to govern matters which are local in scope.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The corporate authorities of counties, townships, school districts, cities, towns and villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holzwasser v. Brady
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.