Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. v. Douglas County’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1997
13 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Railroad Company v. Schurmeir · Railroad Company v. Peniston · Wisconsin Cent Co v. Price County · The Providence Bank v. Alpheus Billings
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is ... quite well settled that, when the state makes itself a party to an action or to a contract or grant in its proprietary capacity, it is subject to the law of estoppel, as other parties litigant or other contracting parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The plaintiff was not and does not claim to have been misled or deceived into failing to pay its taxes by the act of the state.””
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.