State v. Scougal’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1999
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Munn v. Illinois · Butchers' Union Slaughter-House Live-Stock Landing Co v. Crescent Slaughter-House Co · Veazie Bank v. Fenno · Matter of Application of Jacobs · The People v. . Marx
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall be unlawful for any individual, firm or corporation to continue to transact a banking business, or to receive deposits for a period longer than six months, immediately after the passage and approval of this act, without first having complied with and organized under the provisions of this act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No law shall be passed granting to any citizen, class of citizens or corporation, privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens or corporations,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webster v. Knewel“[W]hat the legislature ordains and the constitution does not prohibit must be lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Veeder v. Kennedy
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.