Strahan v. Wayne County’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1931
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Succession of Marsal · Sanford v. Saunders County · Gaster v. Estate of Gaster · Douglas County v. Kountze · Clague v. Tri-State Land Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The ¿inheritance tax law makes all property taxable ‘ which shall pass by will or by the intestate laws of this State.’ The succession law of 1907 is indubitably £ the intestate law of this State.’ In fact, it is now the only intestate law there is in this State, and is clearly included within the terms of the taxing statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"It is sustained by the greater weight of authority, and the more recent decisions of the courts of last resort in this country.””
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.