Dane v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
256 U.S. 589 · 1921
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Schlesinger v. State of Wisconsin (1926), Stebbins v. Riley (1925)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 17 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Davidson v. New Orleans · Shaffer v. Carter
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] state tax law will be held to conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment only where it proposes, or clearly results in, such flagrant and palpable inequality between the burden imposed and the benefit received, as to amount to the arbitrary taking of property without compensation—‘to spoliation under the guise of exerting the power of taxing.’”
5 later decisions 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.