Slidell v. Grandjean’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 412 · 1884
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 13 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1981 · most notably Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. (1891), United States v. Generes (1972)
9 federal appellate · 13 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · The Delaware Railroad Tax Minot v. The Philadelphia Wilington and Baltimre Railroad Company · Langdeau v. Hanes
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also a familiar rule of construction that where a statute operates as a grant of public property to an individual, or the relinquishment of a public interest, and there is a doubt as to the meaning of its terms, or as to its general purpose, that construction should be adopted which will support the claim of the government rather than that of the individual. Nothing can be inferred against the state.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It serves to defeat any purpose concealed by the skillful use of terms to accomplish something not apparent on the face of the act, and thus sanctions only open dealings with legislative bodies.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.