Stone v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 307 · 1886
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 32 district · 188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 513 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908), Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co (1926)
29 federal appellate · 32 district · 188 state decisions — followed in 38 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Munn v. Illinois · Brown v. Maryland · Edye v. Robertson · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same
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 513 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“power to regulate is not a power to destroy ...”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A state enactment, or regulations made under the authority of a state enactment, establishing rates for the transportation of persons or property by railroad that -will not admit of the carrier earning such compensation as, under all the circumstances, is just to it and to the public, would deprive such carrier of its property without .due process of law, and deny to it the equal protection of the laws, and would, therefore, be repugnant to the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States. While rates for the transportation of persons and property within the limits of a state are primarily for its determination, the question whether they are so unreasonably low as to deprive the carrier of its property without such compensation as the constitution secures, and therefore without due process of law, cannot be so conclusively determined by the legislature of the state, or by regulations adopted under its authority, that the matter may not become the subject of judicial inquiry.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A state has power to limit the amount of charges by railroad companies for the transportation of persons and property within its own jurisdiction, unless restrained by some contract in the charter, or unless what is done amounts to a regulation of foreign or interstate commerce. ’ ’”
3 later decisions 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.