Wilmette Park District v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
338 U.S. 411 · 1949
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1985 · most notably James v. United States (1961), South Carolina v. Regan (1984)
46 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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
reviewedWilmette Park Dist. v. Campbell (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Morgan v. Commissioner · Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell · Helvering v. Winmill · Helvering v. Gerhardt · Allen v. Regents of University System of Georgia
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such burdens are but normal incidents of the organization within the same territory of two governments, each possessed of the taxing power. ( Helvering, above, 304 U.S. at 422 , 58 S.Ct. at 976 )”
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.