Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co. v. Wheeling Bridge Co.’s Empirical Analysis
138 U.S. 287 · 1891
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1950 · most notably Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1939), Tiger v. Western Investment Co. (1911)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · Timothy Fanning v. Charles Gregoire and Charles Bogg
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An alleged surrender or suspension of a power of government respecting any matter of public concern must be shown by clear and unequivocal language ; it cannot be inferred from any inhibitions upon particular officers, or special tribunals, or from any doubtful or uncertain expressions." Williams v. Wingo, 177 U. S. 601 , 20 Sup. Ct. 793 , 44 L. Ed. 906 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The judgment appears to bave been considered as so far final as to justify an appeal from it; and if the supreme court of a state holds a judgment of an inferior court of the state to be final, we can hardly consider it in any other light, in exercising an appellate jurisdiction.””
1 later decision 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.