Rosenbloom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably In Re Nowak (1921), State ex rel. Foot v. Bazille (1905)
35 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
““But granting the contention of counsel for defendant that the statute is a revenue measure, pure and simple, we are not able to discover any valid objection to the enforcement of it in the manner provided by the legislature. It is settled doctrine in this and in every other jurisdiction that courts will not adjudge statutes unconstitutional unless they are plainly so. Now, with what express provision of the higher law does the statute in question clash? We know of none.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Kessler““These characteristics,” the judge continues, “speaking generally, distinguished the untaxed peddler from the peddler who is taxed; and they are, it seems to us, quite sufficient to justify the classification which the legislature has made.””
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.