Hannewinkle v. Georgetown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 federal appellate · 13 district · 13 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has been the settled law of the country for a great many years that an injunction bill to restrain the collection of a tax, on the sole ground of the illegality of the tax, cannot be maintained. There must be an allegation of fraud, that it creates a cloud upon the title, that there is apprehension of multiplicity of suits, or some cause presenting a case of equity jurisdiction.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Singer Sewing Mach. Co. v. Benedict · Risty v. Chicago, R. I. &. P. Ry. Co.

2. “that while a court of equity would never entertain a bill to restrain the collection of a tax, except m cases where the tax was unauthorized by law, or where it was assessed on property not subject to taxation, it had never held that jurisdiction would be taken in those excepted cases, without special circumstances, showing that the collection of the tax would be likely to produce- irreparable injury, or cause a multiplicity of suits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Milwaukee v. Kœffler