Western Union Tel Co v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably International Text-Book Company v. Aaron T Pigg, Charles F. Champion, Appt. v. John C. Ames, United States Marshal (1901)
55 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · 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 · Welton v. The State of Missouri · County of Mobile v. Kimball · Gloucester Ferry Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The Supreme Court of Indiana placed its decision in support of the Statute, principally upon the ground that it was the exercise of the police power of the State. Undoubtedly, under the reserved powers of the State, which are designated under that somewhat”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That arrangements may be made with the publishers of newspapers for the transmission of intelligence of general and public interest out of its order, and that communications for and from officers of justice shall take precedence of all others.””
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.