Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.’s Empirical Analysis
270 U.S. 587 · 1926
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 18 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 407 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc, Gibson v. Berryhill (1973)
126 federal appellate · 18 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Shaffer v. Carter · Prendergast v. New York Telephone Co. · Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. v. Russell · Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Kuykendall
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 407 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not required indefinitely to await a decision of the rate-making tribunal before applying to a federal court for equitable relief”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“claimant `is not required indefinitely to await a decision of [an administrative] tribunal before applying to a federal court for equitable relief'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is nothing in the decree, rightly construed, which attempts to curtail or could curtail the legislative or rate-making powers of appellants to proceed hereafter under the State law, subject to such limitations, if any, as may be required by the doctrines of res judicata , ordinarily applicable in such cases.”
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.