Clark v. Poor’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 554 · 1927
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 51 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 322 later decisions (83 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2001 · most notably SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. (1938), Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. (1939)
21 federal appellate · 51 district · 125 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Hess v. Pawloski · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey · Packard v. Banton · Buck v. Kuykendall
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 322 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said that all of the tax is not used for maintenance and repair of the highways; that some of it is used for defraying the expenses of the commission in the administration or enforcement of the Act; and some for other purposes. This, if true, is immaterial. Since the tax is assessed for a proper purpose and is not objectionable in amount, the use to which the proceeds are put is not a matter which concerns the plaintiffs.””
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.