Nettleton's Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996
21 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 Knowlton v. Moore · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Plummer v. Coler · Travelers' Insurance Company v. State of Connecticut · William Snyder v. Bernard Bettman
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We see no merit in this claim. It is true that a distinction between estates of $10,000 and those of more than $10,000, for the imposition of death duties, whether computed upon the estates as a whole or upon the separate legacies derived from them, is arbitrary; it is not true that laying such a tax is an arbitrary and hostile discrimination against any person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Estate of Heck
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.