Voight v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 11 district · 32 state decisions

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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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Undoubtedly a state may establish regulations for the protection of its people against the sale of unwholesome meats, provided such regulations do not conflict with the powers conferred by the) constitution upon congress, or infringe on those granted and secured by that instrument. But it may not, under tlie guise of exerting its police powers, enact inspection laws, and make discriminations against the products and industries of some states in favor of the products a.nd industries of its own or other states. The owner- of the meats here in question, although they were from animals slaughtered in Illinois, had the right, under the constitution, to compete in the markets of Virginia upon terms of equality with the owners of like meats from animals slaughtered in Virginia or elsewhere within one hundred miles from the place of sale. Any regulation which, in terms or by its necessary operation, denies this equality in the markets of the state, is, when applied to the people ard the products or industries of other states, a direct burden upon commerce among the states, and therefore void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Georgia Packing Co. v. Mayor of Macon

2. ““The question is still open as to the mode and extent in which state inspection laws can constitutionally be applied to personal property imported from abroad or from another state.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Patapsco Guano Co. v. Board of Agriculture of North Carolina