Asplund v. Hannett’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Vigil v. Arzola (1983), American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Albuquerque (2008)
3 federal appellate · 94 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 David Muskrat v. · Terrace v. Thompson · State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al. · Crampton v. Zabriskie · Board of Liquidation v. McComb
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The constitutionality of a statute is not in itself a cause of action, nor a head of equity jurisdiction. [Citations omitted.] "So we concluded that, as a citizen, appellant is without standing to question the constitutionality of the act in question, and we proceed to the consideration of the other question. Has a taxpayer such an interest as entitles him to an injunction to restrain devastavit of public funds?"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not the duty of this or any other court to sit in judgment upon the action of the legislative branch of the government, except when the question is presented by a litigant claiming to be adversely affected by the legislative act on the particular ground complained of.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Not having found any legal or logical principle to support a taxpayer's suit to enjoin the expenditure of state funds, we are constrained to hold that he has no such right in this state. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.