Bowman v. Chicago N W Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
125 U.S. 465 · 1888
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 38 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 580 later decisions (125 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Caminetti v. United States (1917), Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917)
59 federal appellate · 38 district · 136 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Brown v. Maryland · 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
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 580 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] State has legislative control, exclusive of Congress, within its territory, of all persons, things, and transactions of strictly internal concern.... It cannot, without the consent of Congress, expressed or implied, regulate commerce between its people and those of the other States of the Union in order to effect its end, however desirable such a regulation might be.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“laws which concern the exterior relations of the United States with other nations and governments are general in their nature, and should proceed exclusively from the legislative authority of the nation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes,”
4 later decisions 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.