Baker v. Denver Tramway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably Universal Indemnity Insurance v. Tenery (1934), Kendall v. Hargrave (1960)
34 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 Barton v. Barbour · Chautauque County Bank v. . Risley · Dyke v. . Spargur · Kinney v. Crocker · Mulcahey v. Strauss
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are of the opinion that the city council had no authority to grant to the defendant company the rights which the ordinance purports to give. To uphold such an ordinance is to approve a palpable attempt to evade a provision of article XX of the state Constitution, which reads as follows:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the charter provision for revocable permits authorizes the council to grant permits, which are in effect franchises, such provisions are invalid as in contravention of the Constitution. Just what such permits may cover, we are not now called upon to determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he general rule is that the question of jurisdiction may be raised at any stage of an action, and that, too without an assignment of error on the subject.”
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.