Sweet v. Rechel’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 380 · 1895
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 29 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 277 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992), Chicago Co v. City of Chicago (1897)
40 federal appellate · 29 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Fletcher v. Peck · Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kan Ry Co · Lowell v. City of Boston
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 277 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in determining whether the legislature, in a peculiar enactment, has passed the limits of its constitutional authority, every reasonable presumption must be indulged in favor of the validity of such enactment. It must be regarded as valid, unless it can be clearly shown to be in conflict with the constitution. It is a well settled rule of constitutional exposition, that if a statute may or may not be according to the circumstances, within the limits of legislative authority, the existence of the circumstances necessary to support it must be presumed.” (citations omitted)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“recognizes the absolute right of the owner, upon his property being taken, to just or reasonable compensation therefor, and makes provision . . . for the ascertainment . . . of the compensation to which, under the constitution, he is entitled,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The settled doctrine, even as it respects the state itself, that, at least, certain and ample provision must be first made by law (except in cases of public emergency) so that the owner can coerce payment through the judicial tribunals or otherwise, without any unreasonable or unnecessary delay.””
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.