The Geneva’s Empirical Analysis
16 F. 874 · 1883
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Parkersburg Ohio River Transp Co v. City of Parkersburg · Cannon v. New Orleans · John Perrine v. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company · Snyder v. President of Rockport · People ex rel. Bd. of State Harbor Comm'rs v. Broadway Wharf 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A municipal corporation claiming the right to exact wharfage for the use of a public wharf must show a plain legislative grant of the franchise; and such authority cannot be .deduced from the powers to lay out, regulate, and exercise all needful jurisdiction over roads, streets, lanes, and alleys, and to make laws, ordinances, by-laws, and regulations for the good order and government of the municipality not repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the laws of the commonwealth.””
1 later decision 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.