City of Tarkio v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Murphy v. People of the State of California (1912), Ex parte Haskell (1896)
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 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 City of St. Louis v. Weber · City of St. Louis v. Bell Telephone Co. · State v. Clarke · Easley v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · State v. Hayes
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is very clear that those exercising useful trades and occupations do not occupy the same relation to society as those engaged solely in giving amusement to the public, and a much larger discretion should be given in regulating the latter than the former. “Keepers of billiard-tables are not recognized by the state as exercising a useful occupation. They are subjected to police regulation by the state and by cities under powers granted them by the state. (R. S. ch. 16.) They are prohibited from allowing minors to play upon their tables. (R. S. § 715.) Villages may prohibit them altogether. (R. S. § 1672.) Public billiard-halls are regarded by many as vicious in their tendencies, leading to idleness, gambling and other vices.” (The City of Tarkio v. Cook, 120 Mo. 1, 10 , 25 S. W. 202, 203 , 41 Am. St. Rep. 678 .)”
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.