Carlyle v. Bartels’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The special assessments imposed are not for •some general or public object, nor are they an exaction made for the purpose of carrying on the government directly or through the medium of municipal corporations. A special assessment is not a charge on the estate that lessens its value, as a tax does. The special assessments in question are imposed .for a special purpose. The improvement is made for the convenience of a particular district, and the property there situated is required to bear the expense in the proportion in which it is benefited. The assessment is precisely in the ratio of the advantages. accruing to the property in consequence of the improvement. It is but an equivalent or compensation for the increased value the property derives from the construction- of the drainage system. Under the authorities and the decision in DeClercq v. Barter Asphalt Pav. Co., 167 Ill. 215 ( 47 N. E. 367 ), the court properly held that special assessments levied by the drainage district were not taxes, as that term wa;s used in the lease in question. ’ ’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Blake v. Metropolitan Chain Stores · 137 Ill. App. 3d 473 - East Lake Fork Special Drainage District v. Village of Ivesdale