Nickey v. State of Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 393 · 1934
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Lindsey v. Normet (1972), Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (1937)
20 federal appellate · 66 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 American Surety Co. v. Baldwin · Saltonstall v. Saltonstall · Cumberland Coal Co. v. Board of Revision of Tax Assessments · York v. State of Texas · Bristol v. Washington County
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]here is no constitutional command that notice of the assessment of a tax, and opportunity to contest it, must be given in advance of the assessment. It is enough that all available defenses may be presented to a competent tribunal before exaction of the tax and before the command of the state to pay it becomes final and irrevocable. ...””
2 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.