City of Lincoln v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 373 · 1936
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. American Trucking Associations (1940), McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona (1973)
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCity of Lincoln v. Ricketts (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Takao Ozawa v. United States · Ohio v. Helvering · Davis v. Pringle · Central Victoria, Ltd. v. Cami
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but that the term embraces those which have powers and privileges analogous to those of private corporations and not possessed by individuals or partnerships. Municipal corporations have such powers and privileges and thus fall within the definition of the terms”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“give to the words their natural significance unless that leads to an unreasonable result plainly at variance with the evident purpose of the legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“having any of the powers and privileges of private corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships”
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.