Honolulu Rapid Transit Land Company v. Territory of Hawaii R’s Empirical Analysis
211 U.S. 282 · 1908
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1957 · most notably City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co. (1909), Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Green Garrett (1913)
4 federal appellate · 11 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 Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · David Kawananakoa v. Ellen Albertina Polyblank · Ex Parte Lennon · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The business conducted by the transit company is not purely private. It is of that class so affected by a public interest that it is subject, within constitutional limits, to the governmental power of regulation. This power of regulation may be exercised to control, among other things, the time of the running of cars. It is a power legislative in its character, and may be exercised directly by the legislature itself. But the legislature may delegate to an administrative body the execution in detail of the legislative power of regulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““To hold that the directors of this corporation, in determining the number, place and size of its stations and other structures, having regard for the public convenience as well as its own pecuniary interests, can be controlled by the courts by writ of mandamus, would be inconsistent with many decisions of high authority in analogous cases.””
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.