Gast Realty Investment Company v. Schneider Granite Company’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 55 · 1916
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 12 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1985 · most notably LaBelle Iron Works v. United States (1921), Nashville St Ry v. Walters (1935)
49 federal appellate · 12 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Davidson v. New Orleans · Hagar v. · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. · Spencer v. Merchant
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It the statute providing for the tax “is of such a character that there is no treasonable presumption that substantial justice generally will be done, hut the probability is that the parties will be taxed disproportionately to each other and to the benefit conferred the law cannot stand against the complaint of one so taxed in fact.” (last Realty Co. v. Schneider Granite Co., 240 U. S. 55 , 36 Sup. Ct. 254 , 60 L. Ed. 523 ; Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. et al. v. Road Improvement Dist. No. 6 of Little River County, Ark., 255 U. S. -, 41 Sup. Ct. 604 , 65 L. Ed. - (Supreme Court of the United States, decided June 6, 1021).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The legislature may create taxing districts to meet the expenses of local improvements, and may fix the basis of taxation without encountering the 14th Amendment unless its action is palpably arbitrary or a plain abuse. [Citing] Houck v. Little River Drainage Dist., 239 U.S. 254 , 36 S.Ct. 58 , 60 L.Ed. 266 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Legislature may create taxing districts to meet the expense of local improvements, and may fix the basis of taxation without encountering the Fourteenth Amendment unless its action is palpably arbitrary or a plain abuse. Houck v. Little River Drainage Dist., 239 U. S. 254, 262 , 60 L. Ed. 266, 273 , 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 58. The front-foot rule has been sanctioned for the cost of paving a street. In such a case it is not likely that- the cost will exceed the benefit, and the law does not attempt an imaginary exactness, or go beyond the reasonable probabilities. French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co., 181 U. S. 324 , 45 L. Ed. 879 , 21 Sup. Ct. 625; Cass Farm Co. v. City of Detroit, 181 U. S. 396 , 45 L. Ed. 914, 915 , 21 Sup. Ct. 644. So in the case of a square bounded by principal streets, the land might be assessed half way hack from the improvement to the next street. Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co., 197 U. S. 430 , 49 L. Ed. 819 , 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 466. But, as is implied by Houck v. Little River Drainage Dist., if the law is of such a character th.at there is no reasonable presumption that substantial justice generally will be done, but the probability is that the parties will be taxed disproportionately to each other and to the benefit conferred, the law cannot stand against the complaint of one so taxed in fact. Martin v. District of Columbia, 205 U. S. 135, 139 , 51 L. Ed. 743, 744 , 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 440.””
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.