State ex rel. Clarkson v. Philips’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Stewart v. DeLand-Lake Helen Special Road & Bridge District (1916), Fine v. Moran (1917)
67 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Munn v. Illinois · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Geer v. State of Connecticut · El Paso Northeastern Railway Company v. Enedina Gutierrez
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' ‘ The State has wide discretionary power in imposing license taxes, and unless there can be no substantial basis for discriminations made in classifications and in fixing the amount of license taxes, so that such discrimination must be regarded as purely arbitrary and unreasonable under every conceivable condition in practical affairs, the courts will not interfere with legislative regulations of such matters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Di Lustro v. Penton
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.