Southern Railway Co. v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
216 U.S. 400 · 1910
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 61 district · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 437 later decisions (86 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911), McLaughlin v. Florida (1964)
18 federal appellate · 61 district · 183 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Davidson v. New Orleans · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank
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 437 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While reasonable classification is permitted, without doing violence to the equal protection of the laws, such classification' must be based upon some real and substantial distinction, bearing a reasonable and júst relation to the things in respect to which such classification is imposed; and classification cannot be arbitrarily made without any substantial basis.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We hold . . . that to tax the foreign corporation for carrying on business under the circumstances shown, by a different and much more onerous rule that is used in taxing domestic corporations for the same privilege, is a denial of the equal protection of the laws . . . .””
2 later decisions 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.