Wisconsin v. Duluth’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 379 · 1877
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Simpson v. Shepard (1913), Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States (1893)
10 federal appellate · 10 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company et al. · Gilman v. Philadelphia · Thompson Willson v. The Black Bird Creek Marsh Company · South Carolina v. Georgia
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is to be observed, as preliminary to an examination of the acts of the general government in the special matter before us, that the whole system of river and lake and harbor improveménts, whether on the seacoast or on the lakes or the great navigable rivers of the interior, has for .years been mainly under the control of that government, and that, whenever it has taken charge of the matter, its right to an exclusive control has not been denied. . . . And while this court has maintained, in many cases, the right of the States to authorize structures in and over the navigable waters. of the States, which-may either impede or improve their navigation, in the absence of any action of the general government in the same matter, the doctrine has been laid down with unvarying uniformity, that when Congress has, by any expression of its will, occupied, the field, that action tvas conclusive of any right to the contrary asserted under state authority. ; The adjudged cases, in this court on this point are numerous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adopted, recognized, and taken charge of”
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.