Dow v. Beidelman’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1958 · most notably Covington Turnpike Road Co v. Sandford (1896), St Louis Ry Co v. Gill Same (1895)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Munn v. Illinois · Stone v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Wabash St Ry Co v. State of Illinois · Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Iowa · Ruggles v. People of the State of Illinois
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.
““A state enactment, or regulations made under the authority of a state enactment, establishing rates for the transportation of persons or property by railroad that -will not admit of the carrier earning such compensation as, under all the circumstances, is just to it and to the public, would deprive such carrier of its property without .due process of law, and deny to it the equal protection of the laws, and would, therefore, be repugnant to the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States. While rates for the transportation of persons and property within the limits of a state are primarily for its determination, the question whether they are so unreasonably low as to deprive the carrier of its property without such compensation as the constitution secures, and therefore without due process of law, cannot be so conclusively determined by the legislature of the state, or by regulations adopted under its authority, that the matter may not become the subject of judicial inquiry.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Prom what lias thus been said, it is not to be inferred that this power of limitation or regulation is itself without limit. This power to regulate is not a power to destroy, and limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation. Under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the state cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward; neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use, without just compensation, or without due process of law.””
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.