Van Dyke v. Geary’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 39 · 1917
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1993 · most notably Block v. Hirsh (1921), St. Joseph Stock Yards Co. v. United States (1936)
6 federal appellate · 14 district · 46 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Munn v. Illinois · City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co. · Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Green Garrett · San Diego Land & Town Co. v. Jasper
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“_ “Article 15, entitled, ‘The Corporation Commission,’ consists of nineteen sections, and confers broad powers of regulation. The character of the service, that is, whether it is public or private, and not the character of the ownership, determines ordinarily the scope of the power of regulation. The need of such regulation and the manner of exercising it are the same whether a public utility is incorporated or not; and the purpose óf a public service commission could easily be frustrated if concerns owned by individuals were excluded from its operation. The district court accordingly declined to give a technical meaning to the term ‘public service corporation,’ and interpreted it in the broad popular sense as embracing all public utilities. That construction is in line with numerous decisions holding that statutes imposing certain liabilities on ‘railroad corporations’ embrace all railroads, whether individually or corporately owned. “It is contended that article 14, entitled, ‘Corporations Other Than Municipal,’ renders this liberal construction of article 15 inadmissible. Section 1, of article 14, defines ‘ “corporations,” as used in this article ... to include all associations and joint stock companies having any powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or copartnerships’; and 116 provides that the records of ‘ all public service corporations’ shall at all times be subject to the- inquisitorial powers of the state. It is argued that the term ‘publ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““All corporations other than municipal engaged in carrying persons or property for hire; or in furnishing gas, oil, or electricity for light, fuel, or power.-, or in furnishing water for irrigation, fire protection, or other public purposes; or in furnishing, for profit, hot or coltf air or steam for heating or cooling purposes; or in transmitting messages or furnishing public telegraph or telephone service, and all corporations other than municipal, operating as common carriers, shall be deemed public service corporations.” Art. 15, § 2, Ariz. Const. A.R.S. (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Constitutional provisions requiring the subject of legislative acts to be embraced in the title are not to be given a strained and narrow construction for the purpose of nullifying legislation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Davey · Hancock v. State
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.