Missouri Pac Ry Co v. Humes’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts (1887), Huntington v. Attrill (1892)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 109 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Barbier v. Connolly · Davidson v. New Orleans · Soon Hing v. Crowley · Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company v. Apms et al.
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But, from the number of instances in which [the Fourteenth Amendment is] invoked to set aside the legislation of the states, there is abundant evidence, as observed by Mr. Justice Miller, in the case referred to, 'that there exists some strange misconception of the scope of this provision, as found in the fourteenth amendment.' It seems, as he states, to be looked upon 'as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of this court the abstract opinions of every unsuccessful litigant in a state court of the justice of the decision against him, and of the merits of the legislation on which such a decision may be founded.’ "”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ibarra“If the laws enacted by a State be within the legitimate sphere of legislative power, and their enforcement be attended with the observance of' those general rules which our system of jurisprudence prescribes for the security of private rights, the harshness, injustice, and oppressive character of such laws will not invalidate them as affecting life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”
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.