McKenzie v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1966
14 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 Mitau v. Roddan · Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Bulte · Winter v. McMillan · Wyoming Building & Loan Ass'n v. Mills Const. Co. · Marcellus v. Wright
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there is some doubt cast upon the proposition in early cases, it appears to be now well settled that there is nothing in the nature of a lien for taxes, or in the fact that such lien exists in favor of the sovereign taxing power, to prevent the application of the equitable doctrine of subrogation in a case where subrogation would otherwise be proper. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stallings v. Erwin
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.