Lacy v. McCafferty’s Empirical Analysis
215 F. 352 · 1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1932
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Cummings v. National Bank · Pittsburgh St Ry Co v. Backus Indianapolis V R Co · Raymondv v. Chicago Union Traction Co. · Coulter v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
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.
““A systematic and intentional under or over assessment of one or more classes of property in violation of the law, whereby one or more classes of property is to be made to bear an undue proportion of the burden of taxation, presents a good cause of action for relief from the payment of the unjust part of the proposed tax.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mudge v. McDougal
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.