State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Witthaus’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Scrapchansky v. Town of Plainfield (1993), National Ass'n of Regulatory Utility Commissioners v. Federal Communications Commission (1976)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Peck v. Tribune Co. · State ex rel. M. O. Danciger & Co. v. Public Service Commission · State Ex Rel. Chase v. Hall · Campbell v. A. B. C. Storage & Van Co. · State Ex Rel. Public Service Commission v. Mulloy
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny person that holds itself out to the public as engaging in the transportation of passengers or property for hire [and is] required by law to transport passengers or property for others without refusal if the fare or charge is paid. [And who] [t]o qualify ... must be registered as a common carrier with all agencies that require such registration....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether [the taxpayer] ... invited the trade of the public ...”
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.