Mitchell v. Board of Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 206 · 1875
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1953 · most notably Chisholm v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1935), Shotwell v. Moore (1889)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
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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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ United States notes are exempt from taxation by or under state or municipal authority; but a court of equity will not knowingly use its extraordinary powers to promote any such scheme as this plaintiff devised to escape his proportionate share of the burdens of taxation. His remedy, if he has any, is in a court of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shotwell v. Moore
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.