State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Clark (1981), Kellaher v. City of Portland (1911)
31 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 Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Armour Packing Co. v. Lacy · Sayre Borough v. Phillips · Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Wright
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true a state may impose a tax on, or require a license from, persons engaged in certain callings or trades, without being bound to include all persons or all property that may be legitimately taxed for governmental purposes. (Citing cases.) But the classification must be on some reasonable basis, and the law, when enacted, must apply alike to all engaged in the business or occupation. Thus an act requiring a license from plumbers is void as discriminatory if it exempts certain plumbers from its operation,””
2 later decisions 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.