Crandall v. State of Nevada’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 35 · 1867
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 19 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 322 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), Griffin v. Breckenridge (1971)
35 federal appellate · 19 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 26 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.
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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 322 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““upon every person leaving the state by any railroad, stagecoach or other vehicle engaged or employed in the business of transporting passengers for hire.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[f]or all the great purposes for which the Federal government was formed, we are one people, with one common country.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The transportation of merchandise from place to place by railroad is commerce. (2) The transportation of merchandise from a place in one state to a place in another is “ commerce among the states.” (3) To fix or limit the charges for such transportation is to regulate commerce. (4) A statute iixing or limiting such charges for transportation from places in one state to places in other states, is a regulation of commerce among the states. (5) The power to regulate such commerce is vested by the constitution in congress. (6) This power of congress is exclusive, at least in all cases where the subjects over which the power is exercised are in their nature national, or admit of one uniform system or plan of regulation. (7) The state cannot adopt any regulation which does or may operate injuriously upon the commerce of other states.”
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.