Haskell v. Cowham’s Empirical Analysis

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3 district · 3 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Interstate commerce in natural gas, including therein its transportation among the states by pipe line, is 'a subject national in its character and susceptible of regulation by uniform rules. The silence or inaction of Congress relative to sueli a subject is a conclusive indication that it intends that interstate commerce therein shall he free, and any law or act of a state or its officers which prohibits it, or substantially restrains its freedom, is violative of the Constitution and void. Welton v. State of Missouri, 91 U. S. 275 , 282, 23 L. Ed. 347 ; Brown v. Houston, 114 U. S. 622 , 631, 5 Sup. Ct. 1094 , 29 L. Ed. 257 ; Walling v. Michigan, 116 U. S. 446 , 455, 456, 6 Sup. Ct. 454 , 29 L. Ed. 691 ; Case of the State Freight Tax, 15 Wall. 232 , 21 L. Ed. 146 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Landon v. Public Utilities Commission