Rowley v. Chicago & Nw Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 102 · 1934
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1991 · most notably Miller Bros. v. Maryland (1954), Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Minnesota (1944)
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Olson v. United States · Simpson v. Shepard · State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al. · Sioux City Bridge Co. v. Dakota County · Boom Company v. Patterson
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There must be something that amounts to an intention, or the equivalent of fraudulent purpose, to disregard the fundamental principle of uniformity.”
6 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.