Dillingham v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
264 U.S. 370 · 1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934), Frost v. Corporation Commission (1929)
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Arthur Manigault v. Alfred a Springs · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. City of Goldsboro · Morris Engel v. Edward R O'Malley F · Denver Co v. City and County of Denver
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The operation of reasonable laws for the protection of the public cannot be headed off by making contracts reaching into the future.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““What a man does not know and cannot find out is chance as to him, and is recognized as chance by the law.””
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.