Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission v. Colburn’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 419 · 1940
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Cuyler v. Adams (1981), Petty v. Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission (1959)
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 58 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 Kalb v. Feuerstein · Green v. Biddle · Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch Co. · The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Brideg Company William Otterson and George Croft
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construction of such a compact sanctioned by Congress”
8 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.