Thorburn Ross v. State of Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 150 · 1913
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 13 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Frank v. Mangum (1915), James v. United States (1961)
31 federal appellate · 13 district · 104 state decisions — followed in 26 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 · Gibbons v. Ogden · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Bain Jr · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No State shall * * * pass any * * * Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“every form in which the legislative power of a state is exerted,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A judicial inquiry investigates, declares and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposed already to exist. That is its purpose and end. Legislation, on the other hand, looks to the future and changes existing conditions by making a new rule to be applied thereafter to all or some part of those subject to its power." [ Ross v. Oregon, 227 U.S. 150, 163 , 33 S.Ct. 220, 223 , 57 L.Ed. 458 (1913).]”
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.