Turner v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 553 · 1871
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1983
6 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 Willard v. Presbury
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly a direct tax on the land, and on all the estates, interests, and claims connected with or growing out of the land,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the United States or in the purchasers at [a tax] sale, in fee simple,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on the owner of the land, and levied on the interest of the owner in it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.