Chicago v. State of Missouri Guffey’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 569 · 1887
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Scottish Union & National Insurance v. Bowland (1905), Phoenix Fire Marine Ins Co of Memphis v. State of Tennessee City of Memphis (1896)
14 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
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 The Providence Bank v. Alpheus Billings · Vicksburg Co v. Dennis · Memphis & Little Rock Railroad v. Railroad Commissioners · The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. The State of Maryland
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment which this writ of error brings up.for review affirms the liability to taxation, in Missouri, for state and county purposes, of what was formerly known as the Central North Missouri Branch of the St. Joseph and -Iowa Railroad, more recently named the Linneus Branch of the Burlington and Southwestern Railway Company, and now owned by the Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Missouri.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no property, real or personal, shall be exempt from taxation, except such as may be used exclusively for public schools, and such as may belong to the United States,, to the state, to counties, or to municipal corporations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any railroad company' in this state authorized by law to build branches,”
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.