John Longyear v. William Toolan’s Empirical Analysis
209 U.S. 414 · 1908
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1983 · most notably Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams (1983), Greene v. Lindsey (1982)
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Hagar v. · State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al. · Spencer v. Merchant · Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad v. Commonwealth · Winona St Land Co v. State of Minnesota
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equivalent to a personal service of notice on all persons who are interested,”
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.