Ducat v. Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1983 · most notably United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n (1944), Western and Southern Life Insurance Company v. State Board of Equalization of California (1981)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Ducat v. Chicago
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“’ “The recognition, of its (tlie corporation’s) existence even by other states, and the enforcement of its contracts made therein, depend purely upon the comity of those states — a comity which is never extended whére the existence of the corporation or the exercise of its powers are prejudicial to their interests or repugnant to their policy. Having no absolute right of recognition in other states, but depending for such recognition and the enforcement'of its contracts upon their assent, it follows, as a matter of course, that such assent may be granted upon such terms and conditions as those states may think proper to impose. They may exclude the foreign corporation entirely, they may restrict its business to particular localities, or they may exact such security for the performance of its contracts with their citizens as in their Judgmént will best promote the public interest. The whole, matter rests in their discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to carry on the business of insurance as agent of said companies. He paid the State for his license, but refused to pay anything to the city of Chicago, on the ground chiefly that corporations were citizens within the meaning of that clause of the Constitution which declared that the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, and the city thereupon brought this suit to recover the rates which he thus refused to pay. The court below decided”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ducat v. Chicago“by taking out licenses issued by the auditor, the companies become, as it were, naturalized and legally domiciled in the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ducat v. Chicago
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.