Rochester Railway Company v. City of Rochester’s Empirical Analysis
205 U.S. 236 · 1907
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1990 · most notably United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey (1977), United States v. Reading Co. (1912)
23 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 12 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 State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al. · Gunter v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Farrington v. Tennessee · Dodge v. Woolsey · Detroit v. Detroit Citizens' Street Railway Co.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A corporation without shareholders, without officers to manage its business, without property with which to do business, and without the right lawfully to do business, is dissolved by the operation of the law which brings this condition into existence.”
2 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.