John Perrine v. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company’s Empirical Analysis
50 U.S. 172 · 1850
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois (1892), Stone v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1886)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Dandridge · Capron v. Van Noorden
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of construction in cases of this description is this, that any ambiguity in the terms of the grant must operate against the corporation and in favor of the public; and the corporation can claim nothing that is not clearly given by the law. We do not mean to say that the charter is to receive a strained and unreasonable construction, contrary to the obvious intention of the act. It must be fairly examined and considered, and reasonably and j ustly expounded.””
1 later decision 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.