May Company v. City of New Orleans’s Empirical Analysis
178 U.S. 496 · 1900
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Hill v. Wallace (1922), McCray v. United States (1904)
3 federal appellate · 13 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Brown v. Maryland
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while remaining the property of the importer, in his warehouse, in the original form or package in which it was imported,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“finds the article already incorporated with the mass of property by the act of the importer. He has used the privilege [L e., of sale] he had purchased, and has himself mixed them up with the common mass, and the law may treat them as it finds them. The same observations apply to plate, .or other furniture used by. the importer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That a state cannot, in the form of a license or otherwise, tax the right of the importer to sell, but. when the importer has so acted upon the goods imported that they have been incorporated or mixed with the general mass of property in the state, such goods have then lost their distinctive character as imports.””
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.