Hannibal St v. Missouri River Packet’s Empirical Analysis
125 U.S. 260 · 1888
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1963 · most notably C. W. Cornell v. F. E. Coyne (1904), Knoxville Water Company v. Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Knoxville (1906)
11 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 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 Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · Murdock v. City of Memphis · Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Fertilizing Company v. Hyde Park · The Binghamton Bridge
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.
“But if there be any doubt as to the proper construction of this statute (and we think there is none), then that construction must be adopted which is most advantageous to the interests of the government. The statute, being a grant of a privilege, must be construed most strongly in favor of the grantor.”
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.