Boston Chamber of Commerce v. City of Boston’s Empirical Analysis
217 U.S. 189 · 1910
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 22 district · 149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 481 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Miller (1943), Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictis (1987)
134 federal appellate · 22 district · 149 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Boom Company v. Patterson · Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Barber Asphalt Paving Company · Edmund Smiley v. State of Kansas
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 481 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question is what has the owner lost, not what has the taker gained.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lost nothing by the superposition of a public easement upon its own.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of theoretical creation, suffered by no one in fact.”
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.