New York ex rel. Edward & John Burke, Ltd. v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
208 U.S. 14 · 1908
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1969 · most notably Hooven & Allison Co. v. Evatt (1945), DeGanay v. Lederer (1919)
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
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 · Fairbank v. United States · Case of the State Freight Tax Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania · Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Adams · Crandall v. State of Nevada
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and 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.” (Emphasis added.)”
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. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. McLeod
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.