McDonald v. Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 665 · 1914
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Neblett v. Carpenter (1938), American Railway Express Co. v. Kentucky (1927)
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Castillo v. McConnico · O. R. & N. Co. v. McDonald
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the contentions as to Federal rights rest upon the assumption that the court below denied due process of law when it entered the decree complained of, and this is based upon the conception that the court excéeded its jurisdiction and misconceived or wrongfully interpreted the evidence, and thereby in effect, while recognizing the title of the plaintiffs in error, virtually deprived them of the right conferred by the state law of having a common-law trial for the purpose of determining the questions which would require to be decided in case of the exercise' by the Railroad company of the right of eminent domain, including, of course, the fixing of compensation to be paid for the taking and the damages incident thereto.. Leaving aside for the moment the question of the jurisdiction of the court in the fundamental sense, that is, ratione materlae, it is manifest that the want of foundation for all the propositions insisted upon is quite clear, since, after all, taking the aspect most favorable for the plaintiffs in error, the propositions but assert that the court below, in deciding the cáse, committed error as to matters involving no Federal question because purely of state cognizance. It is elementary and needs no citation of authority to show that the due process clause'of the 14th Amendment does not control methods of state procedure or give jurisdiction to this court to review mere errors of law alleged to have been committed by a'state court in the performance of its ”
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.