Palmer v. Stumph’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 1935 · most notably Lent v. Tillson (1887), Jackson v. Smith (1889)
60 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Bright v. McCullough · Hill v. Higdon · City of Indianapolis v. Imberry · Trustees of the Illinois & Michigan Canal v. City of Chicago · Burnett v. Mayor of Sacramento
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I’>y this net the rate is the same upon every owner within the roach of the assessment. That is the exact benefit each may receive from the improvement of the street. The legislature have adopted this method of reaching that result. It is certainly reasonable to suppose that, as a rule, property along the line of a street improvement will he equally benefited; that, as a rule, tire; property fronting upon a street, foot by foot, will be of equal value, and should therefore he equally assessed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.