Osborne v. Mobile’s Empirical Analysis
83 U.S. 479 · 1872
Citation profile
3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1944 · most notably Munn v. Illinois (1876), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895)
3 district · 15 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.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the second of the cases recently decided -the whole court agreed that a tax on a business carried on within the state, and without discrimination between its citizens and the citizens of other states, might be constitutionally imposed and collected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re May“upon a business carried on within the city of Mobile.”
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.