Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company v. State of Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
223 U.S. 118 · 1912
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 30 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 350 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923)
64 federal appellate · 30 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · United States v. Cruikshank · Ex parte Virginia · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana
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 350 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Miller · Agre v. Wolf“[The] essentially political nature [of the attack on the statute here] is at once made manifest by understanding that the assault which the contention here advanced makes is not on the tax as a tax, but on the state as a state. It is addressed to the framework and political character of the government by which the statute levying the tax was passed. It is the government, the political entity, which (reducing the case to its essence) is called to the bar of this court, not for the purpose of testing judicially some exercise of power ... but to demand of the state that it establish its right to exist as a state, republican in form.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t rests with Congress to decide what government is the established one in a state. For, as the United States guarantee to each state a republican form of government, Congress must necessarily decide what government is established in the state before it can determine whether it is republican or not. And when the senators and representatives of a state are admitted into the councils of the Union, the authority of the government under which they are appointed, as well as its republican character, is recognized by the proper constitutional authority. And its decision is binding on every other department of the government, and could not be questioned in a judicial tribunal.”
3 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.