Mobile Co v. State of Tennessee’s Empirical Analysis
153 U.S. 486 · 1894
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1971 · most notably Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. (1912), McCullough v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1898)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Huntington v. Attrill · Bell's Gap Railroad v. Pennsylvania · Home Insurance Co of New York v. State of New York · Farrington v. Tennessee · New Orleans Water-Works Co v. Louisiana Sugar Refining 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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““AYe do not deem it necessary to consider the further point urged by counsel for defendants in error that the exemption clause in question is in conflict with the fourteenth amendment of tlie constitution of the United States. That amendment conferred no new and additional rights, but only extended the protection of the federal eonsiiration over rights of life, liberty, and property that previously existed under all state constitutions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is always a tendency to construe statutes in the light in which they appear when the construction is given. * * * But, in endeavoring to ascertain what the Congress of 1862 intended, we must, so far as possible, place ourselves in the light that Congress enjoyed, look at things as they appeared to it, and discover its purpose in the language used in connection with the attending circumstances.”-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Legislative contracts, especially, should be read in the light of the public policy entertained, and the purposes sought to be accomplished at the- time they were made, rather than at a later period when different ideas and theories may prevail.””
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.