Marshall v. Silliman’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1931 · most notably Anderson v. Township of Santa Anna in De Witt Illinois (1886), Bolles v. Town of Brimfield (1887)
29 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 Harward v. St. Clair & Monroe Levee & Drainage Co. · Prettyman v. Supervisors of Tazewell County · President of Keithsburg v. Frick · Cowgill v. Long · Hessler v. Drainage Commissioners
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that on the 9th of March, 1869, the legislature passed another act authorizing towns to subscribe $100,000; but a new notice was not given. The charter required twenty days’ notice, and only seven intervened between the passage of the act and the vote. It was insisted, however, that the curative act of April '17, passed after the vote had been taken, gave validity to the bonds. On this ground counsel placed their chief reliance, and to it the court directed its principal attention. The act was direct and positive, and left nothing to inference. It was intended, so far as the legislature could do it, to make the bonds binding on the township, and collectible in the same manner as if the subscription had been authorized by the charter, and voted for in accordance with its terms. The court held it to be a violation of the fifth section of the ninth article of the Constitution of 1848, which declares “ that the corporate authorities of counties, townships, school-districts, cities, towns, and villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes, such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and is hereby declared binding on said township, and said §40,000, when subscribed according to the conditions of said vote, may be collected from said township in the same manner as if the said subscription had been made under the provisions of said charter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The town supervisor and clerk, who issued theSe bonds, do not represent a township, as the board of trustees represent an incorporated town, or the common council represent a city. The supervisor and town clerk are but a part of the corporate authorities.”.”
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.