Reinman v. City of Little Rock’s Empirical Analysis
237 U.S. 171 · 1915
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 11 district · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 293 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City (1978), Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co (1926)
35 federal appellate · 11 district · 148 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedCity of Little Rock v. Reinman-Wolfort Automobile Livery Co.
Relationships
Relies on Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Lawton v. Steele · Barbier v. Connolly · Soon Hing v. Crowley · Harry Gundling v. City of Chicago
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 293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While such regulations are subject to judicial scrutiny upon fundamental grounds, yet a considerable latitude of discretion must be accorded to the lawmaking power; and so long as the regulation in question is not shown to be clearly unreasonable and arbitrary, and operates uniformly upon all persons similarly situated in the particular district, the district itself not appearing to have been arbitrarily selected, it cannot be judicially declared that there is a deprivation of property without due process of law, or a denial of the equal protection of the laws, within the meaning of the 14th Amendment.””
5 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.