Illinois Cent Co v. State of Illinois City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 district · 294 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 367 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States (1917), United States v. Arthur Lynah (1903)
3 federal appellate · 13 district · 294 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · Stone v. Mississippi · Merrit Martin v. William C Waddell
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 367 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““***So with trusts connected with public property, or property of a special character, like lands under navigable waters, they cannot be placed entirely beyond the direction and control of the State.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) “It is the settled law of this country-that the ownership of and dominion and sovereignty over lands covered by tide waters, within the limits of the several States, belong to the respective States within which they are found, with the consequent right to use or dispose of any portion thereof when that can be done without substantial impairment of the interest of the public in the waters and subject always to the paramount right of Congress to control their navigation so far as may be necessary for the regulation of commerce with foreign nations and among States.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the people of each state ... hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use.... The sovereign power itself... cannot ... make a direct and absolute grant of the waters of the state, divesting all the citizens of their common right.”
2 later decisions 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.