City of Cincinnati v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
223 U.S. 390 · 1912
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 14 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923), Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934)
8 federal appellate · 14 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Hagar v. · Sturges v. Crowninshield
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he object and end of all government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established; and it can never be assumed, that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth, new channels of communication are daily found necessary, both for travel and trade, and are essential to the comfort, convenience, and prosperity of the people. . . .” The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions, it was disarmed of the powers necessary to accomplish the ends of its creation.”
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.