Bright v. Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis
249 F. 950 · 1918
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1960
15 federal appellate · 2 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 United States v. Whitridge · Central Trust Co. v. New York City & Northern Railroad · New York Terminal Co. v. Gaus · In re the taxation of The United States Car Co. · Commonwealth v. Lancaster Savings Bank
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““by the great weight of modern authority, * * * courts' of equity, operating the property and liquidating the debts of corporations, which would otherwise have been liable to pay such taxes, ought to direct the payment by their receivers of such taxes as would have accrued .during the time the receivers were actually operating the property.””
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.