Missouri Pac Ry Co v. State of Kansas’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2000
18 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · James Clark Distilling Company v. Western Maryland Railway Company · Rainey v. United States · Green v. Weller · State v. McBride
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question is one that has been so often decided that it seems hardly necessary to dwell upon it. The provision of the Constitution says ‘Two-thirds of both Houses.’ What constitutes a House? A quorum of the membership, a majority, one-lialf and one more. That is all that is necessary to constitute a House to do all the business that comes before the House. Among the business that comes before the House is the reconsideration of a bill which has been vetoed by the President; another is a proposed amendment to the Constitution; and the practice is uniform in both cases that if a quorum of the House is present, the House is constituted and two:thirds of those voting are sufficient in order to accomplish the object.””
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.