Nelson v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1996
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sheriff of each county, in addition to his other duties, shall be the collector of taxes therefor. But in counties having 10,000 inhabitants, to be determined by the last preceding census of the United States, a collector of taxes shall be elected, to hold office for two years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holcomb v. Spikes
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.