State Ex Rel. Cairo Bridge Commission v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably Rothschild v. State Tax Com'n of Missouri (1988), State Ex Rel. Wagner v. St. Louis County Port Authority (1980)
25 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 Mayo v. United States · Mayo v. United States · Laret Investment Co. v. Dickmann · duPont v. Mills · State Ex Rel. Caldwell v. Little River Drainage District
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general doctrine is that tax exemption statutes should be strictly construed because taxes are imposed on the whole citizenry for the support of the government, and exemptions are discriminatory .... but as to property owned by the State or any of its political subdivisions, the doctrine is reversed. There taxation is the exception and not the rule. The State in its Constitution expressly exempts its own property.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the effect is the same as if the statute or part thereof adopted had been written into the adopting statute.”
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.