Township of Rock Creek v. Strong’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 271 · 1877
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1960 · most notably Chaffee County v. Potter (1892), Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. State of Nebraska No 127 Missouri Pacific Railway Company (1910)
9 federal appellate · 13 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 Commissioners of Marion County v. Clark · Town of Coloma v. Eaves · Mercer County v. Hacket · Thomson v. Lee County · Minturn v. Larue
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Like all expressions of legislative will, this provision of the act must receive a reasonable construction, and we cannot doubt that in the grant of power to aid in the construction of railroads or other works of internal improvement is included authority to assist in the construction of depots and side tracks of a railroad. Such constructions are constituents — essential parts of every railroad, without which it would be incomplete and incapable of serving the uses for which it is intended. The cost of building them is always, and properly, charged to construction account, and not to repairs or expenses of operation; and a mortgage of a railroad, without further description than such as is necessary to indentify it, covers its sidetracks and depots.””
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.