Pittsburgh Coal Co v. State of Louisiana Charity Hospital of New Orleans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 district · 25 state decisions

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

1. ““ ‘Legislation, in a great variety of ways, may affect commerce and persons engaged in it without constituting a regulation of it within the meaning of the constitution. . . . And it may be said, generally, that legislation of a state, not directed against commerce or any of its regulations, but relating to the rights, duties, and liabilities of citizens, and only indirectly and remotely affecting the operations of commerce, is of obligatory force upon citizens within its territorial jurisdiction, whether on land or water, or engaged in commerce, foreign or interstate, or in any other pursuit.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Francis v. Allen · State ex inf. Barker v. Merchants' Exchange

2. ““The terms ‘imports’ and ‘exports' apply only to articles imported from foreign countriés, or exported to- them. The inhibition imposed is the laying of duties on imports from foreign countries and not on such as come from one state to another.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Red C. Oil Mfg. Co. v. Board of Agriculture

3. ““The net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any state on imports or exports shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States ; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Red C. Oil Mfg. Co. v. Board of Agriculture