State v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1958
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Act of 1879 is entitled, ‘An act to provide revenue,’ etc. Now how broad is the term ‘revenue,’ and what may be included in such a title? Does it mean simply funds raised by taxation, and is the levying of taxes all that may be included? Such would seem to be -the views of the counsel for the State, but we cannot think them correct. One of the definitions given by Webster of the term is, ‘the annual produce of- taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a Nation or State collects and receives into the treasury for public use.’ The word is broad and general, and includes all public moneys which the State collects and receives, from whatever source-and in whatever manner. The general funds of this State are collected from taxes, but the Legislature might, in an act with such a title — at least, so far as any question of the form of the legislation is concerned — enact that they be collected from licenses, or from the sale of lottery tickets, or it might unite and enact that part might be collected from one source and in one manner, and the rest from another source and in a different manner. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.