Chicago Great Western Ry Co v. Kendall Chicago R I & P Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Cumberland Coal Co. v. Board of Revision of Tax Assessments (1931), McCluskey v. Sparks (1955)
2 district · 22 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 Siler v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Sioux City Bridge Co. v. Dakota County · Greene v. Louisville & Interurban Railroad · Sunday Lake Iron Co. v. Township of Wakefield · Cummings v. National Bank
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not enough, in these cases, that the taxing officials have merely made a mistake. It is not enough that the court, if its judgment were properly invoked, would reach a different conclusion as to the taxes imposed. There must be clear and affirmative showing that the difference is an intentional discrimination and one adopted as a practice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fritch
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.