Giozza v. Tiernan’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 657 · 1893
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 260 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1975 · most notably Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization (1939)
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 131 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Barbier v. Connolly · Kemmler · Crowley v. Christensen · Kidd v. Pearson
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 260 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The amendment [Fourteenth] does not take from the States those powers of police that were reserved at the time the original Constitution was adopted. . . . It was not designed to interfere with the power of the State to protect the lives, liberty and property of its citizens, and to promote their health, morals, education and good order.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This statute affects all persons in Texas engaged in the sale of liquors in exactly the same manner and degree. Whether considered as imposing restrictions upon the sale, in the exercise of the police power of the state, or as levying taxes upon occupations, under authority of the Legislature in that behalf, petitioner was not arbitrarily deprived of his property nor deprived of the equal protection of the laws.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Due process of law, witliin the meaning of the amendment, is secured if the laws operate on all alike, and do not subject the individual to an arbitrary exercise of the powers of government.””
1 later decision 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.