Langdon v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
37 F. 449 · 1888
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
December 1912
most recently cited
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1912
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.
Most-quoted passages
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““(a) The language of paragraph 4, § 2, art. 4, of the constitution of 1877, is as follows: ‘ The general assembly shall have no power to authorize any corporation to buy shares or stock in any other corporation in this state or elsewhere, or to make any contract or agreement whatever with any such corporation which may have the effect, or be intended to have the effect, to defeat or lessen competition in their respective businesses, or to encourage monopoly; and all such contracts and agreements shall be illegal and void.’ Analyzing this section, we have the following: (1) The general assembly shall have no power to authorize any. corporation to buy shares or stock in any other corporation in this state or elsewhere which may have the effect, or be intended to have the effect, to defeat or lessen competition in their respéctive businesses. (2) The general assembly shall have no power to authorize any corporation to buy shares or stock in other corporations, in this state or elsewhere, which may have the effect, or be intended to have the effect, to encourage monopoly. (3) The general assembly shall have no power to authorize any corporation to make any contract or agreement whatever with any such corporation which may have the effect, or be intended to have the effect, to defeat or lessen competition in their respective businesses. (4) The general assembly shall have no power to authorize any corporation to make any contract or agreement which may have the effect, or be inten”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““This is the action of the sovereign people of Georgia in convention assembled. They chartered the Central Railroad <fc Banking Company. They chartered the Savannah, Dublin & Western Short-Line Railway Company. They granted to these railways vast, valuable, and perpetual franchises. With these rights thus granted, no power can interfere. They are perpetual; they are indefeasible. But with these rights are carried all the deterring and prohibitory effects of the constitutional inhibition just quoted, by which the people seek to defeat the aggregations of monopoly, and prevent the coporations which they permit to exist from aggrandizement of power, to the injury or destruction of public and private rights. The court has no official concern in the policy of this law. It is too plain and significant for intelligent controversy. Whatever may be the rules upon similar topics prescribed in other states, the people of Georgia, with full power to act, with undeniable jurisdiction over the important parties here, have embodied in their fundamental law this comprehensive and vital clause, clearly intended to accomplish what they deemed the salutary and healthful result of competing lines for railway transportation. Contracts In violation of this clause are not permitted. When attempted, they are utterly void. They have no binding force. They are nullities, and are to bo disregarded and ignored whenever it concerns a party at interest to do so. ISTow, what may not be done directly may”
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.