Lionberger v. Rouse’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 19 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Without pursuing the subject further, it is enough to say, in our opinion, congress meant no more by the second limitation in the provisorio the forty-first section of the national banking act than to require of each state, as a condition to the exercise of the power to tax the shares in national banks, that it should, as far as it had the capacity, tax in like manner the shares of banks of issue of its own creation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. First Nat. Bank v. Stone

2. “that the tax so imposed, under the laws of any State, upon the shares of any of the associations authorized, by this act, shall not exceed the rate imposed upon the shares in any of the banks organized under the authority of the State- where such association is located.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boyer v. Boyer

3. “other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boyer v. Boyer