County of St Clair v. Interstate Sand Car Transfer Company’s Empirical Analysis
192 U.S. 454 · 1904
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1994 · most notably Buck v. Kuykendall (1925), McNeill v. Southern Railway Co. (1906)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States · In re Debs · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Hooper v. People of State of California
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The position of the parties as to the cases which we have reviewed is this: The county (city) insists that the statement in Gibbous v. Ogden that the establishment of ferries was within the reserved powers of the states, and the rulings in Fanning v. Gregoire, Conway v. Taylor, and. Wiggins Ferry Co. v. East St. Louis, affirmatively settle that a state may establish ferries over a navigable river, the boundary between two states, and license the same, and that doing so is not only'not repugnant to the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States, but is in consonance therewith, since the power as to ferries was reserved lo the states and not delegated to the national government. The Gloucester Ferry Case, it is said, rested upon the nature of the particular tax imposed by the state of Pennsylvania, and that the case may hence not be considered as overruling the previous cases, not only because it did not expressly refer to them, but also because some expressions found in the opinion which we have cited are construed as substantially affirming the right of the state to regulate and license a ferry like the one here in question. On the oilier hand, the corporation urges that the rulings in Fanning v. Gregoire and Conway v. Taylor proceeded upon a misconception and partial view of the language of Chief Justice Marshall tn Gibbons v. Ogden. That language, it Is insisted, when tlie sentences are considered which immediately precede the passage quoted in Fanning v. Gre”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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