City of New York v. Feiring’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 283 · 1941
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 462 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Reorganized CF&I Fabricators of Utah, Inc. (1996), Unio Pac Co v. United States (1941)
107 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCity of New York v. Feiring (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Burnet v. Harmel · Morgan v. Commissioner · Palmer v. Bender · New Jersey v. Anderson · Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co.
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 462 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extends to those pecuniary burdens laid upon individuals or their property, regardless of their consent, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of government or of undertakings authorized by it.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not to learn whether they have denominated the obligation a `tax' but to ascertain whether its incidents are such as to constitute a tax within the meaning of § 64”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by the particular characterization by local law or the state's demand”
3 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.