Union Bridge Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
204 U.S. 364 · 1907
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 78 district · 209 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 720 later decisions (104 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul (1963)
137 federal appellate · 78 district · 209 state decisions — followed in 35 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · United States v. Lee · Field v. Clark · Shively v. Bowlby
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 720 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could not be said to exercise strictly legislative ... power any more, for instance, than it could be said that Executive officers exercise such power when, upon investigation, they ascertain whether a particular applicant for a pension belongs to a class of persons who, under general rules prescribed by Congress, are entitled to pensions”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with knowledge of the paramount authority of Congress”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““'The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.””
3 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.