Guy v. Baltimore’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 434 · 1879
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 17 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Simpson v. Shepard (1913), Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad (1916)
13 federal appellate · 17 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Brown v. Maryland · Welton v. The State of Missouri · McCready v. Virginia · Woodruff v. Parham · Packet Company v. Keokuk
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been the law that States may not 'build up [their] domestic commerce by means of unequal and oppressive burdens upon the industry and business of other States.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the State, under the guise of exerting its police powers, should [impose a burden] . . . applicable solely to articles [of commerce] . . . produced or manufactured in other States, the courts would find no difficulty in holding such legislation to be in conflict with the Constitution of the United States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has long been the law that States may not “build up [their] domestic commerce by means of unequal and oppressive burdens upon the industry and business of the States.” Guy v. Baltimore, [ 10 Otto 434 , 443] 100 U.S. 434, 443 [ 25 L.Ed. 743 ] (1880). Were it otherwise, “the trade and business of the country [would be] at the mercy of local regulations, having for their object to secure exclusive benefits to the citizens and products of particular States.” Id. [100 U.S.] at 442.”
2 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.