Lindsay & Phelps Co. v. Mullen’s Empirical Analysis
176 U.S. 126 · 1900
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1980 · most notably Alonzo Bailey v. State of Alabama (1911), Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Riverside Mills (1911)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
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 County of Mobile v. Kimball · Gloucester Ferry Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Wabash St Ry Co v. State of Illinois · Thompson Willson v. The Black Bird Creek Marsh Company · Huse v. Glover
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principal works of the boom company are wholly within the state of Minnesota. The center of the main channel of the Mississippi river is northeast of the island. The state of Minnesota had therefore the undoubted right to improve this portion of the Mississippi river lying southwest of the island for the purpose of facilitating the navigation of logs. It could do the work itself, or could authorize a corporation to do the work, and it could prescribe any reasonable fees for the use of the improvement The power of the state to authorize the construction of these works did not depend at all upon the question whence all or most of the logs likely to be run into the boom should come. It is enough that the state authorized this improvement and proscribed the conditions upon which it might be used by any owner of logs. These conditions are not shown to be unreasonable. It is a legitimate exercise of power on the part of a state to provide state supervision of what is done in works of such a character and to require payment of reasonable charges for such supervision. It does not appear that the plaintiff was com- lulled to avail itself of this boom, or that its logs were forcibly seized by the boom company and against its will passed through the boom. On the contrary, it would seem not improbable from the testimony that the persons who organized and owned the boom company were engaged in the business of cutting logs on the Chippewa river, and that this litigation sprang from th”
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.