Howell v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2014
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Ferguson v. Skrupa · Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Allied Stores of Ohio, Inc. v. Bowers
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll agricultural, forest and single-family owner-occupied residential property, and historic buildings and sites”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The taxing scheme in question places a greater tax burden on those who are using their residential property for income-producing purposes. This is rational. The discrimination can be justified on the basis that the government is either providing more governmental services, on the one hand, or, on the other hand, is interested in relieving the tax burden on specified property owners to further some social or economic policy.” Id., 388 So.2d at 914 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order for a state taxing classification to withstand a challenge on constitutional grounds under the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment, there must be a 'rational basis’ for the possible discriminatory effect of that tax.” The court found that the taxing scheme of Alabama which placed a greater tax burden on those using their residential property for income producing purposes could be justified on the”
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.