Long Island Water-Supply Co v. City of Brooklyn’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 685 · 1897
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 327 later decisions (67 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934)
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 118 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co. · Adams Express Co. v. Ohio State Auditor
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 327 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract in terms contained no words of exclusion. It gave to the company the privilege of laying its mains in the streets of the town, and contained a covenant on the part of the town to pay certain hydrant rentals; but grants from the public are strictly construed in favor of the public, and grants of a privilege are not ordinarily to be taken as grants of an exclusive privilege.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The constitutional guarantee of just compensation is not a limitation of the power to take, but only a condition of its exercise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But into all contracts, whether made between States and individuals, or between individuals only, there enter conditions which arise not out of the literal terms of the contract itself; they are superinduced by the preexisting and higher authority of the laws of nature, of nations, or of the community to which the parties belong; they are always presumed, and must be presumed, to be known and recognized by all, are binding upon all, and need never, therefore, be carried into express stipulation, for this could add nothing to their force. Every contract is made in subordination to them, and must yield to their control, as conditions inherent and paramount, wherever a necessity for their execution shall occur.”
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.