Western Union Tel. Co. v. Mayor of New York’s Empirical Analysis
38 F. 552 · 1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1978
1 federal appellate ·
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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Kidd v. Pearson · Pensacola Telegraph Company v. Western Union Telegraph Company
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It never could have been intended by the congress of the United Slates, in conferring upon a corporation of one state the authority to enter the territory of any other state, and erect poles and lines therein, to establish the proposition iha( such a company owed no obedience to the laws of the state into which it tins entered.””
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.