Turner v. State of Maryland’s Empirical Analysis
107 U.S. 38 · 1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1969 · most notably Simpson v. Shepard (1913), SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. (1938)
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Brown v. Maryland · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · Frazier v. Warfield
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to improve the quality of articles produced by the labor of a country, to fit them for exportation; or, it may be, for domestic- use;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Leisy v. Hardin · Voight v. Wright“the exercise of . . . [legislative] discretion, and of ... [a State’s] power to prescribe the method in which its products shall be fitted for exportation, it may direct that a certain product, while it remains ‘in the bosom of the country’ and before it has become an article 'of foreign commerce or of commerce between the States,’ shall be encased in such a package as appears best fitted to secure the safety of the package and to identify its contents as the growth of the State, and may direct that the weight of the package, and the name of the owner of its contents, shall be plainly marked on the package, . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Polk Co. v. Glover““After the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful to carry out of this state any hogsheads of tobacco raised in this state, except in hogsheads which shall have been inspected, passed and marked agreeably to the provisions ot this act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Cravens
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.