Luxton v. North River Bridge Co.’s Empirical Analysis
147 U.S. 337 · 1893
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 7 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1998 · most notably Catlin v. United States (1945), Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. (1952)
80 federal appellate · 7 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Indianapolis and St Louis Railroad Company v. Horst · Southern Pac Co v. Denton · McGourkey v. Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co. · Chateaugay Ore & Iron Co.
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““give way whenever to adopt state practice would be inconsistent with the terms, and defeat the purpose, or impair the effect, of any legislation of Congress.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he case is not to be sent up in fragments....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““To have held otherwise might have wholly defeated the appellate jurisdiction of this court under the Constitution and laws of the United States, for, if the highest court of the state held the order appointing commissioners to be final and conclusive unless appealed from, and the validity of the condemnation not to be open on a subsequent appeal from the award of damages, it is difficult to see how this court could have reached the question of validity of the condemnation, except by writ of error to the order appointing commissioners.””
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.