City of Columbus v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
218 U.S. 645 · 1910
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis (1914), Sanitary District of Chicago v. United States (1925)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 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 Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · City of Walla Walla v. Walla Walla Water Co · Kneeland v. American Loan & Trust Co. · Beer Company v. Massachusetts · Morris v. Gilmer
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No higher police duty rests upon ’ municipal authority than that of furnishing an ample supply of pure and wholesome water for public and do- ■ mestic uses. The preservation of the health of the community is best obtained by the discharge of this duty, to say nothing of the preservation of property from fire, so constant an attendant upon crowded conditions of municipal life.””
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.