Wilson v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
204 U.S. 24 · 1907
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1982 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Flast v. Cohen (1968)
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Gibbons v. Ogden · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Mills v. Green · United States v. Lee
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The power to construct, or to.authorize individuals or corporations to construct, national highways and bridges from State to State, is essential to the complete control and regulation of interstate commerce. . . . This power in former times was exerted to a very limited extent, the Cumberland or National road being the most notable instance.- . . . But since, in consequence of the expansion of the country, the-multiplication of its products, and the invention of railroads and locomotion by steam, . land transportation has so vastly increased, a sounder consideration of the subject has prevailed and led to the con-elusion that-Congress has plenary power over the whole subject.”.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all the rights, power and authority within the zone . . . which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Leased Area is not a part of the territory of the United States for the purpose of coastwise shipping laws so as to exclude British vessels from trade between the United States and the Leased Areas.”
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.