Wilmington Railroad v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 264 · 1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1998 · most notably New Jersey v. Anderson (1906), Stone v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1886)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Philip v. Nock
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been so often decided by this court that a charter of incorporation granted by a state creates a contract between the state and the corporators, which the state cannot violate, that it would he a work of supererogation to repeat the reasons on which the argument is founded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larabee v. Dolley
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.