Gates v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2001
5 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to have an injunction to restrain tlio collection of an illegal iax has been so long recognized and acted upon in this state that it is unnecessary to stop to incniire upon what ground that jurisdiction is exercised by courts of equity. The jurisdiction in this case, however, may be placed upon the ground of the inadequacy of the remedy at law. The officer, acting in good faith and under color of right, is justified by his process, and is not'liable as a trespasser: and, as a suit would not lie against the state directly, the only complete remedy is by injunction.””
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.