Turnpike Co. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 210 · 1865
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1988 · most notably Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1939), Long Island Water-Supply Co v. City of Brooklyn (1897)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No exclusive privileges had been conferred upon it, either in express terms or by necessary implication; and hence whatever may have been the general injurious effects and consequences to the company, from the construction and operation of the rival road, they are simply misfortunes which may excite our sympathies, but are not the subject of legal redress.””
3 later decisions 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.