Smith v. St. Louis & Southwestern Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
181 U.S. 248 · 1901
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 18 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. (1938), McCray v. United States (1904)
15 federal appellate · 18 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Leisy v. Hardin · Bowman v. Chicago N W Ry Co · Railroad Company v. Husen · Minnesota v. Barber · Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authority of the Legislature to enact laws for the protection of domestic animals, and to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among them, is everywhere recognized as a valid exercise of the police power of the state. Thus the state may prescribe stock quarantine regulations, and may also require its citizens, at their expense, to disinfect their diseased or infected live stock or infected places.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mulket v. State
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.