State v. Loomis’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis (1897), Ritchie v. People (1895)
4 federal appellate · 64 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Munn v. Illinois · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Canada Southern Ry Co v. Gebhard Same · Missouri Pac Ry Co v. Mackey
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Classification for legislative purposes must have some reasonable basis upon which to stand. It must be evident that the differences which will support class legislation must be such as in the nature of things furnish a reasonable basis for separate laws and regulations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.