State of Louisiana v. State of Texas’s Empirical Analysis
176 U.S. 1 · 1900
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 42 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 281 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923), Maryland v. Louisiana (1981)
46 federal appellate · 42 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · In re Debs · Railroad Company v. Husen · Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance · United States v. State of Texas
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 281 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Inasmuch as the vindication of the freedom of interstate commerce is not committed to the state of Louisiana, and the state is not engaged in such commerce, the cause of action must be regarded, not as involving any infringement of the powers of the state of Louisiana, or any special injury to her property, but as asserting that the state is entitled to seek relief in this way because the matters complained of affect her citizens at large." 176 U.S. at 19 , 20 S.Ct. at 257 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is of so delicate and grave a character that it was not contemplated that it would be exercised save when the necessity was absolute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the attitude of parens patriae, trustee, guardian or representative of all her citizens.”
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.