Natal v. State of Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
139 U.S. 621 · 1891
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1997 · most notably Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968), Dimick v. Schiedt (1935)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Callan v. Wilson · Village of Buffalo v. Webster · Alderman v. Tirrell · First Municipality v. Cutting
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the law of Louisiana, the regulation and control of markets are matters of municipal police, and may be intrusted by the Legislature 1o a city council, to be exercised as the public health and convenience may require.””
2 later decisions 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.