St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. State of Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 518 · 1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1969 · most notably Southern Pac Co v. State of Arizona Sullivan (1945), SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. (1938)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Adair v. United States · Soon Hing v. Crowley
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have recognized the impossibility of legislation being all-comprehensive, and that there may be practical groupings of objects which will as a whole fairly present a class of itself, although there may be exceptions in which the evil aimed at is deemed not so flagrant.””
2 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.