Silver v. Silver’s Empirical Analysis
280 U.S. 117 · 1929
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 34 district · 491 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 776 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. (1978), PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980)
86 federal appellate · 34 district · 491 state decisions — followed in 44 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 New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · Mountain Timber Company v. State of Washington · Joseph Patsone v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Miller v. Wilson
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 776 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constitution does not forbid the creation of new rights, or the abolition of old ones recognized by the common law, to attain a permissible legislative object,”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no constitutional requirement that a regulation, in other respects permissible, must reach every class to which it might be applied--that the legislature must be held rigidly to the choice of regulating all or none. * * * It is enough that the present statute strikes at the evil where it is felt and reaches the class of cases where it most frequently occurs.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . In this day of almost universal highway transportation by motor car, we cannot say that abuses originating in the multiplicity of suits growing out of the gratuitous carriage of passengers in automobiles do not present so conspicuous an example of what the legislature may regard as an evil, as to justify legislation aimed at it, even though some abuses may not be hit. [Citations omitted.] It is enough that the present statute strikes at the evil where it is felt and reaches the class of cases where it most frequently occurs.” (p. 123.)”
5 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.