Gottschall v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Schubach v. Silver (1975), Tranter v. Alleghency County Co. Authority (1934)
69 state decisions
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 Capital Traction Co. v. Hof · Bank of Columbia v. Okely · Sharpless v. Mayor of Philadelphia · Wheeler v. Philadelphia · Commonwealth ex rel. Wolfe v. Butler
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That one who asks to have a law declared unconstitutional takes upon himself the burden of proving beyond all doubt that it is so, has been so often declared that the principle has become axiomatic. In Sharpless v. Mayor of Philada., 21 Pa. 147 , Mr. Justice Black said (p. 164) : ‘There is another rule which must govern us in cases like this; namely, that we can declare an act of assembly void, only when it violates the constitution clearly, palpably, plainly; and in such manner as to leave no doubt or hesitation on our minds. This principle is asserted by judges of every grade, both in the federal and in the state courts.’ ””
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.