Daniel Dobbins v. Erie County’s Empirical Analysis
41 U.S. 435 · 1842
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005 · most notably Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923), Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911)
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 24 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Brown v. Maryland · Plowden Weston v. The City Council of Charleston · Collector v. Day
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Does not a tax, then, by a state upon the office, diminishing the recompense, conflict with the law of the United States, which secures it to the officer in its entireness? It certainly has such an effect; and any law of a state imposing such a tax cannot be constitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Gore“the constitutional means which have been legislated by the government of the United States to carry into effect its powers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“means by which his services are procured and retained”
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.