State v. Central Computer Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2006
16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Commerce Union Bank v. Tidwell · District of Columbia v. Universal Computer Associates, Inc. · Boswell v. Paramount Television Sales, Inc. · Hancock v. State · State v. Central Computer Services, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incidental physical commingling of the intangible information sought ... and the tangible magnetic tapes and punched cards themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which can hardly be thought to be subject to a personal property tax.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“What rests in the machine [from the software] is an intangible”
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.