poll taxes
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 302 U.S. 277 - Breedlove v. Suttles · 1937Most cited · 132 citing opinions
Poll taxes are laid upon persons without regard to their occupations or property to raise money for the support of government or some more specific end.
How often courts cite the case defining “poll taxes”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “poll taxes” — 132 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.