Larson v. State of South Dakota’s Empirical Analysis
278 U.S. 429 · 1929
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Dodge v. Board of Education (1937), Aerojet-General Corp. v. Askew (1975)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 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 Huntington v. Attrill · Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · New Orleans Water-Works Co v. Louisiana Sugar Refining Co · The Providence Bank v. Alpheus Billings
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All that is contemplated by the statute and all that was granted by the plaintiff’s leases was the right to operate a ferry, together with a prohibition upon the granting boards from granting other ferry leases within the granted area during’ the period. * * * Nowhere in the statute can be found or implied a provision that the State was binding itself not to construct, nor authorize the construction of, a bridge across the river within the 4-mile area, or not to permit carriage by aviation across it. The fair and reasonable construction of the statute is that it refers solely to transportation by ferry.””
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.