Crow v. McAlpine’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
June 2006
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Philadelphia School District · Elliott v. McNair · Gaud v. Walker · Schultes v. Eberly · Duke Power Co. v. Bell, County Treasurer
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article X, § 5 provides, in pertinent part: No tax ... shall be established, fixed, laid or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people or their representatives lawfully assembled....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The unlimited power of taxation attempted to be conferred by the Act under consideration is itself a forcible reminder that the power to fix and levy a tax should only be conferred upon a body which stands as the direct representative of the people, to the end that an abuse of power may be directly corrected by those who must carry the burden of the tax.”
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.