Potts v. McCastlain’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2001
6 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 Sproles v. Binford · Standard Oil Co. v. Brodie · Fort Smith v. Scruggs · Wiseman v. Madison Cadillac Company · Ex parte Byles
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case at bar the statute applies equally and without discrimination to all persons of the classification made and thereby taxed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“But the rule of equality only requires that the tax shall be collected impartially of all persons in similar circumstances.”
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.