Mestayer v. Corrige’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1933
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After a careful review of all the authorities c-ited and others at hand, we have reached the conclusion that all of the exactions demanded are 'within the terms ‘tax’ and ‘license,’ and that same were manifestly intended by the mayor and trustees of the city of New Iberia to constitute a source of revenue under the apparent exercise of delegated police power, and that said statute and ordinance are unconstitutional, null and void.””
1 later decision 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.