Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works v. City of Atlanta’s Empirical Analysis
203 U.S. 390 · 1906
Citation profile
363 federal appellate · 111 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 971 later decisions (69 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Wilson v. Garcia (1985)
363 federal appellate · 111 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCity of Atlanta v. Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Huntington v. Attrill · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis
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 971 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person whose property is diminished by a payment of money wrongfully induced is injured in his property.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a man is made poorer by an extravagant bill we do not regard his wealth as a unity * * *. We do not go behind the person of the sufferer. We say that he has been defrauded or subjected to duress, or whatever it may be, and stop there.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No suit or prosecution fcr any penalty or forfeiture, pecuniary or otherwise, accruing under the laws of the United States, shall be maintained, except in cases where it is otherwise specially provided, unless the same is commenced within five years from the time when the penalty or forfeiture accrued: Provided, That the person of the offender, or the property liable for such penalty or forfeiture, shall, within the same period, be found within the United States; so that the proper process therefor may be instituted and served against such person or property.””
4 later decisions 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.