Dreyfus v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Merwin v. Fussell (1910), Replogle v. Little Rock (1924)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 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.
Relationships
Relies on Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Crowley v. Christensen · Caroline Dobbins v. City of Los Angeles · Butchers' Union Slaughter-House Live-Stock Landing Co v. Crescent Slaughter-House Co · California Reduction Company v. Sanitary Reduction Works of San Francisco
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“monopolies are upheld when deemed necessary in executing a duty incumbent on city authorities or the legislature for the preservation of public health.”
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.