Lake Shore Ry Co v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
173 U.S. 684 · 1899
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 25 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1984 · most notably Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1912), Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad (1916)
7 federal appellate · 25 district · 96 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 Smyth v. Ames · Munn v. Illinois · Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Chicago Ry Co v. Wellman · Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kan Ry 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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What the company may choose voluntarily to do furnishes no criterion for the measurement of the power of the Legislature. Persons may voluntarily contract to do what no Legislature would' have the right to compel them to do. Nor does it furnish a standard by which to measure the reasonableness of the matter exacted by the Legislature.” Lake Shore & M. S. Railway v. Smith, 173 U. S. 684 , 697, 19 Sup. Ct. 565 , 43 L. Ed. 858 .”
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.