Seton Hall College v. Village of South Orange’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 100 · 1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1991 · most notably United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey (1977), Phelps v. Board of Education (1937)
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Milwaukee Electric Railway Light Company v. Railroad Commission of Wisconsin · Phoenix Fire Marine Ins Co of Memphis v. State of Tennessee City of Memphis · New Jersey v. Yard · Yazoo Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Wirt Adams · University v. People
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an exercise of the sovereign authority of the State,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.