St Louis Ry Co v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
173 U.S. 404 · 1899
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1963 · most notably Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934), Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1912)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Holden v. Hardy · Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Orient Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Daggs · Missouri Pac Ry Co v. Mackey
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This act was purely prospective in its operation. It did not interfere with vested rights, or existing contracts, or destroy, or sensibly encroach upon, the right to contract, although it did impose a duty in reference to the payment of wages actually earned, which restricted future contracts in the particular named.””
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.