Soon Hing v. Crowley’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 703 · 1885
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 48 district · 326 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 586 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
21 federal appellate · 48 district · 326 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Barbier v. Connolly
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 586 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The diverse character of such motives, and the impossibility of penetrating into the hearts of men and ascertaining the truth, precludes all such inquiries as impracticable and futile.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The discriminations which are open to objection are those where persons engaged in the same business are subject to different restrictions, or are held entitled to different privileges under the same conditions. It is only then that the discrimination can be said to impair that equal right which all can claim in the enforcement of the laws. ( Soon Hing v. Crowley, 113 U.S. 703, 709 , 5 S.Ct. 730 , 28 L.Ed. 1145 .)"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... Laws setting aside Sunday as a day of rest are upheld, not from any right of the Government to legislate for the promotion of religious observances, but from its right to protect all persons from the physical and moral debasement which comes from uninterrupted labor. Such laws have always been deemed beneficent and merciful laws, especially to the poor and dependent to the laborers in our factories and workshops and in the heated rooms of our cities; and their validity has been sustained by the highest courts of the states. (Emphasis added.) 113 U.S. at 710 , 5 S.Ct. at 734 , 28 L.Ed. at 1147 .”
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.