Ratterman v. Western Union Tel Co Western Union Tel Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Ohio Tax Cases (1914), People Ex Rel. Alpha Portland Cement Co. v. Knapp (1920)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Pensacola Telegraph Company v. Western Union Telegraph Company · Case of the State Freight Tax Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania · Telegraph Company v. Texas
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the subjects of taxation can be separated so that that which arises from interstate commerce can be distinguished from that which arises from commerce wholly within the state, the court will act upon this distinction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Rhodes
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.