Fargo v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Traust Co, McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. (1940)
2 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 20 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 · Gloucester Ferry Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Wabash St Ry Co v. State of Illinois · Case of the State Freight Tax Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania · Crandall v. State of Nevada
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Congress shall have Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; . . . .”
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.