State v. Corbett’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1975
18 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ogden v. Saunders · Rippe v. Becker · State v. Donaldson · Burdick v. People · Fry v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With these elementary propositions in mind, wo proceed to consider the evils, or supposed evils, which the legislature designed to remedy, and the measures which they have adopted to accomplish that end. It was commonly asserted and believed (to what extent correctly is not important) that spurious and stolen tickets, and tickets which had expired by limitation, or that we.ro not transferable, were often put on the market to such an extent as to work groat frauds upon bolh the public and the carriers; that frequently those selling such tickets were Irresponsible, so that the party defrauded had no redress; that the business of trafficking in such tickets often furnished an inducement to railway employes to steal tickets, or issue spurious ones, and put them on the market, it was also commonly believed that, in order to evade statures designed to secure uniformity of rates and to prevent discriminations, some carriers of passengers were in the habit of placing large blocks of their tickets with ‘scalpers,’ ostensibly not, their agents, for sale at cut rates. To remedy these and similar abuses, real or supposed. this statute was passed. That all its provisions have some relation to, and tendency to accomplish, this end, is quite clear. Do they transcend any constitutional limitation upon legislative power? It seems to us that most of the objections to the act — certainly the first two-are based upon a radical misconception of its provisions, and of the character of transportat”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Except where the constitution has imposed limitations upon the legislative power, it must be considered as practically absolute; and to warrant the judiciary in declaring a statute invalid they must be able to point out some constitutional limitation which the act clearly transcends.”
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.