Water Light Gas Company of Hutchinson Kansas v. City of Hutchinson No 53 Water Light Gas Company of Hutchinson Kansas’s Empirical Analysis
207 U.S. 385 · 1907
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003 · most notably Old Colony Trust Company v. City of Omaha (1913), Home Telephone Telegraph Company v. City of Los Angeles (1908)
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 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 City of Walla Walla v. Walla Walla Water Co · California Reduction Company v. Sanitary Reduction Works of San Francisco · Vicksburg v. Vicksburg Waterworks Co. · City of Cleveland v. Cleveland City Railway Co. · Freeport Water Company v. City of Freeport
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of a municipal corporation to grant exclusive privileges must be conferred by explicit terms. If inferred from other powers, it is not enough that the power is convenient to other powers; it must be indispensable to them”
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.