State v. Harrington’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably State v. Auclair (1939), Sabre v. Rutland Railroad (1913)
1 district · 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Welton v. The State of Missouri · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Ward v. Maryland · Veazie Bank v. Fenno
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Desty on Taxation, 1383, says: ‘Municipal corporations may tax a business or occupation of one class and omit to tax that of another class; and may classify merchants, and tax each class in its discretion; but a tax on any occupation must reach all who follow it, all of a class of persons or things.’ ””
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.