Button v. Drake’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 62 Wash. 2d 645 - State Ex Rel. Washington State Finance Committee v. Martin (1963), Duhame v. State Tax Commission (1947)
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
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 Payne v. City of Covington · Button v. Hikes · Commonwealth v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Martin v. Sutcliffe · Commonwealth v. Nute
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no room for construction of a Constitution outside of the words themselves, if they are unambiguous. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an exchangeable value, or which goes to make up one's wealth or estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt;”
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.