Transportation Company v. Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 635 · 1878
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 23 district · 242 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 498 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992), Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. (1982)
53 federal appellate · 23 district · 242 state decisions — followed in 42 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 Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co. · Eaton v. B. C. & M. R. R. · Ann Smith v. The Corporation of Washington
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 498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]cts done in the proper exercise of governmental powers, and not directly encroaching upon private property, though their consequences may impair its use, are universally held not to be a taking within the meaning of the constitutional provision.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ A legislature may and often does authorize and even direct acts to be done which are harmful to individuals, and which without the authority would be nuisances; but in such a case, if the statute be such as the legislature has power to pass, the acts are lawful, and are not nuisances, unless the power has been exceeded. ’ ’”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because of this rule which denies the recovery of consequential damages in the absence of any taking, many state constitutions provide in substance that private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without compensation. However, the federal obligation has not been so enlarged either by statute or by constitutional amendment.”
4 later decisions 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.