State v. Sponaugle’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably John Fischer v. City of St Louis (1904), Anderson v. Ritterbusch (1908)
33 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Justice Harlan cites Bell’s Gap R. Co. v. Pennsylvania, 134 U.S., 232 , (10 Sup. Ct., 533 [ 33 L.Ed. 892 ]), holding that: ‘Process of taxation does not require the same kind of notice as in a suit at law, or proceedings to take property under the power of eminent domain. It involves no violation of due process of law, when executed according to customary forms and established usage.’ And Justice Harlan added: ‘This must be so, else the existence of government might be put in peril by delays attendant upon formal judicial proceedings for collection of taxes.’ ””
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.