Brennan v. City of Titusville’s Empirical Analysis
153 U.S. 289 · 1894
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 18 district · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 326 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Simpson v. Shepard (1913), Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States (1899)
19 federal appellate · 18 district · 144 state decisions — followed in 36 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 · Munn v. Illinois · Barbier v. Connolly · Brown v. Maryland · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee
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 326 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we think it must be considered, in view of a long line of decisions, that it is settled that nothing which is a direct burden upon interstate commerce can be imposed by the State without the assent of Congress”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This tax is a direct' charge and burden upon the business; and if a State may lawfully exact it, it may increase the amount of this exaction until all interstate commerce in this mode ceases to be possible. And notwithstanding the fact that the regulation of. interstate commerce is committed by the Constitution to the United States, the State is enabled to say that it shall not be carried on in this way, and to that extent to regulate it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That which belongs to commerce [between the States] is within the jurisdiction of the United States, but that which does not belong to commerce is within the jurisdiction of the police power of the State.”
2 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.