Commonwealth v. Budd Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Life Assurance Co. (1965), Katzenberg v. Comptroller of the Treasury (1971)
50 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 Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Welch v. Henry · Nichols v. Coolidge · Billings v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Following Welch v. Henry , we decide that a tax may not be retroactively applied beyond the year of the general legislative session immediately preceding that of its enactment; to provide otherwise constitutes a denial of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects... .”
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.