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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 147 U.S. 190 - Illinois Cent Co v. City of DecaturMost cited · 87 citing opinions

burdens, charges, or impositions put or set upon persons or property for public uses, and this is the definition which Lord Coke gives of the word 'talliage,'

How often courts cite the case defining “taxes”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “taxes” — 87 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.