Rock v. Stinger’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1924 · most notably Graham v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners (1879), State v. McFetridge (1893)
25 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Chester Glass Co. v. Dewey · Halbert v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners
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 specific money received by a collector, in the collection of taxes, is his money, and not that of the town. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marx v. Parker
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.