City of Sault Ste. Marie v. International Transit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
234 U.S. 333 · 1914
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1981 · most notably Buck v. Kuykendall (1925), Sanitary District of Chicago v. United States (1925)
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedInternational Transit Co. v. City of Sault Ste. Marie
Relationships
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · Simpson v. Shepard · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Leisy v. Hardin · County of Mobile v. Kimball
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the State, or the city, may make its consent necessary, it may withhold it. The appellee, having its domicile in Canada, is engaged in commerce between Canada and the United States. At the wharf which it leases for the purpose on the American shore, it receives and lands persons and property. Has the State of Michigan the right to make this commercial intercourse a matter of local privilege, to demand that it shall not be carried on without its permission, and to exact as the price of its consent — if it chooses to give it — the payment of a license fee? This question must be answered in the negative.”
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.