County of Santa Clara v. Southern Pac R Co People of the State of California’s Empirical Analysis
118 U.S. 394 · 1886
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 15 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 303 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Delaware v. Van Arsdall (1986), Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984)
24 federal appellate · 15 district · 111 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Appeal of North Beach & Mission Railroad · Wells v. Burbank · Hayne v. Hood · Libby v. Burnham
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 303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Sec. 10. A1 property, except as hereinafter in this section provided, shall be assessed in the county, city, city and county, town, township, or district in which it is situated, in the manner prescribed by law- The franchise, roadway, road-bed, rails, and rolling-stock of all railroads operated in more than one county in this State shall be assessed by the State Board of Equalization at their actual value, and the same shall be apportioned to the counties, cities and counties, cities, towns, townships, and districts, in which such railroads are located, in proportion to the number of miles of railway laid in such counties, cities and counties, cities, towns, townships, and districts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“These questions belong to a class which this court should not decide, unless their determination is essential to the disposal of the case in which they arise.”
1 later decision 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.