Thomas v. Leland’s Empirical Analysis
1840
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1921 · most notably People Ex Rel. Griffin v. Mayor of Brooklyn (1851), Genet v. . City of Brooklyn (1885)
38 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I admit that this power of taxation may be abused, but its exercise cannot be judicially restrained so long as it is referable to the taxing power. The only check lies at present in that power being usually exerted on considerable bodies of men who possess a control in a greater or less degree over its agents.”
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.