Omaha Horse Ry. Co. v. Cable Tramway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
30 F. 324 · 1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1919
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 The Bridge Proprietors v. The Hoboken Company · John Perrine v. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company · Hammond v. Haws · Saginaw Gas-Light Co. v. City of Saginaw · McElroy v. Kansas City
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That even if the grant of the ‘horse railroad’ franchise meant a grant of the ‘street railroad’ franchise in the contemplation of the parties, yet a grant of a monopoly contemplated was only of such forms of transportation as were then known and in existence, not of such as might subsequently be devised and used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.