Horner v. Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Generally, its legal import is a tax, a duty, a share imposed, like rent of a farm, for the privilege of using a property, a portion or sum given the author of a book for the use of his manuscript, to the inventor for the use of his patent, to the landowner for the use of his oil or gas.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Leydig v. Commissioner · Leydig v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue