Ferguson v. . Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1992 · most notably St. John v. Andrews Institute for Girls (1908), 14 E.H. Smith 377 - Kittinger v. . Buffalo Traction Co. (1899)
5 federal appellate · 48 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 People v. . McCann · The People v. . O'Brien · The People v. . Central R.R. Co. of N.J.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems impossible to fix any definite rule by which to solve the question whether a law is local or general, and it has been found expedient to leave the matter to a considerable extent open, to be determined, upon the special circumstances of each case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Another rule evolved by the discussion of the subject is that an act embracing within its scope all the cities of the state, or all things of a certain class, is a general, and not a local, act. ””
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.