Stockle v. Silsbee’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 1929 · most notably City of Topeka v. Dwyer (1904), Silsbee v. Stockle (1880)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy of the law,” said Judge Cooley (Stockle v. Silsbee, 41 Mich. 615 , 2 N. W. 900 ), “is that the parties shall pay legal taxes, even though there may be some irregularity in demanding them, and that they shall complain to the courts of those errors only which may injure them. . . . “It is probable that in no tax case have all the proceedings been ■exactly and punctiliously correct, but they are sufficiently so for legal purposes in any case, if no error is committed which can prejudice the person taxed.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baird v. Zahl“/‘The time has gone by, if it ever was, when the proceedings of taxing officers are to be criticized with ¡microscopic nicety, and the exact time and method of ■every step examined to detect a departure from the law, however insignificant or unintentional.””
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.