Plymouth Coal Company v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania T’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 531 · 1914
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 32 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 360 later decisions (85 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922)
44 federal appellate · 32 district · 117 state decisions — followed in 24 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 · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. Grimaud · Davidson v. New Orleans
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 360 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it require[d] a comparatively small portion of the valuable contents of the vein to be left in place,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It shall be obligatory on the owners of adjoining coal properties to leave, or cause to be left, a pillar of coal in each seam or vein of coal worked by them, along the line of adjoining property, of such width, that taken in connection with the pillar to be left by the adjoining property owner, will be a sufficient barrier for the safety of the employes of either mine in case the other should be abandoned and allowed to fill with water; such width of pillar to be determined by the engineers of the adjoining property owners together with the inspector of the district in which the mine is situated, and the surveys of the face of the workings along such pillar shall be made in duplicate and must practically agree. A copy of such duplicate surveys, certified to, must be filed with the owners of the adjoining properties and with the inspector of the district in which the mine or property is situated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * * The difficulties suggested are hypothetical rather than practical * * * . “We may once more repeat what has been so often said that one who would strike down a State statute as violative of the Federal Constitution must show he is within the class with respect to whom the act is unconstitutional, and must show that the alleged unconstitutional feature injures him, and so operates as to deprive him of rights protected by the Federal Constitution.” Citing Southern Railroad Co. v. King, 217 U. S. 524, 534 , 30 S. Ct. 594 , 54 L. Ed. 868, 871 ;”
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.