Ex parte Maier’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Geer v. State of Connecticut (1896), Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel (1928)
4 federal appellate · 11 district · 102 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Leisy v. Hardin · Bowman v. Chicago N W Ry Co · Railroad Company v. Husen · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Thorpe v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The wild game within a state belongs to the people in their collective, sovereign capacity; it is not the subject of private ownership, except in so far as the people may elect to make it so; and they may, if they see fit, absolutely prohibit the taking of it, or any traffic or commerce in it, if deemed necessary for its protection or preservation, or the public good.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is said that it would be a strong thing for the Legislature of the United Kingdom to interfere with the rights of foreigners to kill foreign birds, but it may well be that the true and only mode of protecting British wild fowl from indiscriminate slaughter, as well as of protecting other British interests, is by interfering indirectly with the proceedings of foreign persons. The object is to prevent British wild fowl from being improperly killed and sold under pretense of their being imported from abroad.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.