Lanning v. Osborne’s Empirical Analysis
79 F. 657 · 1897
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1939
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Porter v. Sabin · White v. Ewing · Dietzsch v. Huidekoper · French Trustee v. Hay · Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company v. Ward
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the terms of this act of the legislature, tlie boards of supervisors of the several counties are given power, miel it is made tlieir duty, in the manner prescribed in the act, to iix (lie maximum rates at which any person, company, or corporation may sell, rent, or distribute water appropriated for the purpose. The circumstance's and conditions under which sncli board is authorized and required to do that thing are prescribed by sections 3, 4, 5, and G of the act. The action of the board can only lie invoked in the first instance by a petition in writing of not less than 25 of the inhabitants who are taxpayers of the county. It may he that the number thus fixed by the statute is too large: that in some cases it may be difficult, in others impossible, to obtain 25 inhabitants, who are taxpayers of. the county, to .loin in the petition asking the board to establish maximum rates. If so, it is a matter for .the consideration of the legislature, with which the constitution has left it. By the statute, as enacted, when such a petition, so signed, has been presented, the board, upon giving the notice required, is empowered to examine witnesses; to send for persons, books, and accounts; to ascertain the value of the water system, and the reasonable expenses of its management and operation, including the cost of repairs, together with all other facts, circumstances, and conditions pertinent to the question; and, after such investigation and consideration, to fix and establish the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lanning v. Osborne““Hie writ of injunction shall not be granted by a court of the United States to stay proceedings in a court of a state, except in eases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.