Savannah Thunderbolt Isle of Hope Railway of Savannah Georgia v. Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah’s Empirical Analysis
198 U.S. 392 · 1905
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1959 · most notably Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911), Metropolis Theatre Co. v. City of Chicago (1913)
10 federal appellate · 11 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 Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Hayes v. State of Missouri · County of Mobile v. Kimball · Soon Hing v. Crowley
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difference between the two railroads is obvious and warrants the diversity in the mode of taxation.”
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.