Rogers v. Burlington’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 654 · 1865
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1986 · most notably Washington v. W. C. Dawson & Co. (1924), Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. (1932)
10 federal appellate · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Slacum v. Pomery · Clapp v. County of Cedar
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he rule that a corporation quite as much as an individual is held to fair dealing with other parties, applies with all its force, and we repeat, that corporations cannot by their acts, representations, or silence, involve others in onerous engagements, and be permitted to defeat the calculations and claims which their own conduct has superinduced. Id. at 667.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The act oí incorporation is to them an enabling act. It gives them all the power they possess. It enables them to contract; and when it prescribes to them a mode of contracting they must observe that mode, or the instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been incorporated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.