Barbier v. Connolly’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 27 · 1885
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 94 district · 825 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,423 later decisions (121 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Meyer v. State of Nebraska (1923), Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co (1926)
97 federal appellate · 94 district · 825 state decisions — followed in 48 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
Cited together with Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Soon Hing v. Crowley · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Lawton v. Steele
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 1,423 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “The fourteenth amendment, in declaring that no state 'shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,’’ undoubtedly intended not only that there-should be no arbitrary deprivation of life or-liberty, or arbitrary spoliation of property,, but that equal protection and security should be given to all under like circumstances in. the enjoyment of their personal and civil rights; that all persons should be equally entitled to pursue their happiness, and acquire and enjoy property; that they should-have like access to the courts of the country for the protection of their persons and property, the prevention and redress of wrongs,, and the enforcement of contracts; that no-impediment should be interposed to the pursuits of any one, except as applied to the-same pursuits by others under like cireum.,- stances; that no greater burdens should be laid upon one than are laid upon others in the same calling and condition; and that in the administration of criminal justice no different or higher punishment should be imposed upon one than such as is prescribed to all for like offenses. But neither the amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is — nor any other amendment, was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to leg”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leisy v. Hardin · Jones v. Brim“the same municipal authority which directs the cessation of labor must necessarily prescribe the limits within which it shall be enforced, as it does the limits in a city within which wooden buildings cannot be constructed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Soon Hing v. Crowley
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.