City of St. Louis v. United Railways Co.’s Empirical Analysis
210 U.S. 266 · 1908
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 11 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2007 · most notably United States v. Winstar Corp. (1996), Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911)
20 federal appellate · 11 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Stone v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Blair v. City of Chicago · Farrington v. Tennessee · Detroit v. Detroit Citizens' Street Railway Co. · The Delaware Railroad Tax Minot v. The Philadelphia Wilington and Baltimre Railroad Company
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless this right has been specifically surrendered in terms which admit of no other reasonable interpretation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the fixing’ of a license tax upon all companies alike for the privilege of using cars in the city, it is exerting other charter powers. It makes provision uniformly applicable to all persons or companies using street cars. It is a revenue measure equally applicable to all coming within its terms. We do not perceive that the exercise of the power to grant privileges in the streets in making terms with companies seeking such rights, in the absence of plain and unequivocal terms to that effect, excludes the city’s right to impose the license tax under the power conferred for that purpose.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An examination of tlie cases in this court shows that it is not sufficient that a street railway company has agreed to pay for the privilege of using the streets for a given term, either in a lump sum, or hy payments- in installments, or percentages of the receipts, to thereby conclude the municipality from exercising a statutory authority to impose license fees or taxes. This right still exists unless there is a distinct agreement, clearly expressed, that the sums to be paid are in lieu of all such exactions.””
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.