Interstate Consolidated Street Railway Company v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
207 U.S. 79 · 1907
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 16 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co (1926)
19 federal appellate · 16 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Smyth v. Ames · Munn v. Illinois · Barbier v. Connolly · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe 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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not enough that a statute goes to the verge of constitutional power. Wo must be able to see clearly that it goes beyond that power. In case of a real doubt a law must be sustained.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the charter, instead of writing out the requirements of Rev. Laws, 112, § 72, referred specifically to another document expressing them, and purported to incorporate it, of course the charter would have the same effect as if it itself contained the words.”
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.