Abbott v. Lindenbower’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 1944 · most notably Schlesinger v. State of Wisconsin (1926), O'Donnell v. Wells (1929)
48 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Whitney v. . Thomas · Curry v. Hinman
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With regard to the other matters of evidence above enumerated [except those two] we are inclined to think they were not essential pre-requisites to the lawful taxing power in the state, and that the act cannot be declared unconstitutional for the reason that it makes the deed conclusive evidence that all those things had been rightly done. They were matters of form which might be taken against him by default.”
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.