Withnell v. Ruecking Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 63 · 1919
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 12 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1985 · most notably Nashville St Ry v. Walters (1935), Browning v. Hooper (1926)
15 federal appellate · 12 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Wolfe Londoner v. City and County of Denver · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. · Houck v. Little River Drainage District · Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A local assessment for a street improvement, made in accordance with the fixed-rule of the charter of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, which was adopted by a vote of the people under srate constitutional authority, is legislative in character and requires no preliminary hearing as to the nature and extent of benefits in order to maintain its constitutional validity.””
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.