Montello Salt Company v. State of Utah’s Empirical Analysis
221 U.S. 452 · 1911
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936), Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (1941)
12 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Inhabitants of the Township of Montclair County of Essex v. Ramsdell · State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock · United States v. Goldenberg · Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Market Company v. Hoffman
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`may have the sense of addition . . . and of "also;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The court also considered that the word “including” was used as a word of enlargement, the learned court being of opinion that such was its ordinary sense. With this we cannot concur. It is its exceptional sense, as the dictionaries and eases indicate. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The word ‘including’ is the participle form of the verb ‘include’, which by Webster’s Dictionary is defined in its primary sense to mean to confine within, to hold, to contain, to shut up, to inclose; by the Century Dictionary, to comprise as a part. The word has also been defined as having an accumulative sense and as classing that which follows with that which has gone before.””
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.