Trageser v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1972 · most notably Terrace v. Thompson (1923), Joseph Patsone v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1914)
2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are unable to conceive that anyone, citizen or alien, can acquire rights which could in any way control, impair, impede, limit or diminish the police power of a state. Such power is original, inherent and exclusive; it has never been surrendered to the general government and never can be surrendered without imperiling the existence of civil society. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The act in question is entitled:”
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.