Colorado v. Toll’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 228 · 1925
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 45 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Williams v. Fanning (1947), Kleppe v. New Mexico (1976)
137 federal appellate · 45 district · 12 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 Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Missouri v. Holland · Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · McKelvey v. United States
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 318 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no question that a bill in equity is a proper remedy and that it may be pursued against the defendant without joining either his superior officers or the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the State has not surrendered its legislative power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nevada v. Watkins
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.