Taylor v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1959 · most notably Cole v. City of La Grange (1885), University v. People (1878)
1 district · 29 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 Campbell v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a tax to be expended in a manner which shall promote the general prosperity and welfare of the municipality which levies it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“tax to be expended in a manner which shall promote the general prosjierity and welfare of the community which levies it; that every individual tax-payer shall have a direct interest in the object for which the tax is levied, orbe directly benefited by the expenditure, is unattainable in the very nature of things. General results are all that can be expected ; and if it appears that a tax has been voted and lev-' ied with an honest purpose to promote the general well-being of the municipality, and was not designed merely for the benefit of individuals or a class, its collection should not be stayed by the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so narrow a construction as to j ustify the courts in holding that a municipality should not tax itself, although authorized by act of the legislature, because it might be a debatable question whether the proposed tax would promote the corporate welfare or not;”
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.