Crabtree v. Madden’s Empirical Analysis
54 F. 426 · 1893
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010 · most notably Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe (1982), Billings v. United States (1914)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Meriwether v. Garrett · McLish v. Roff · Arndt v. Griggs · Lane County v. Oregon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The counsel for plaintiffs attempts to escape this conclusion by the argument that this tax is a debt; that it arises upon an implied contract; that the court has Jurisdiction to enforce such contracts, and hence of this action. This position is not tenable. Taxes are not debts. They do not rest upon contract, express or implied. They are imj)osed by the legisla live authority, without the consent aivd against the will of the persons taxed, to maintain the government, protect the rights and privileges of its subjects, or to accomplish some authorized special purpose. They do not draw interest, are not subject to set-off, and do not depend for their existence or enforcement upon the individual assent of tbe taxpayers.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When that judgment is rendered, the party against whom it is rendered must elect whether he will take his writ of error or appeal to the Supreme Court upon the question of jurisdiction alone, or to the Circuit Court of Appeals upon the whole case. If the latter, then the Circuit Court of Appeals may, if it deem proper, certify the question to this court.””
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.