Toxaway Hotel Co. v. Smathers & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
216 U.S. 439 · 1910
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1939 · most notably Lee v. the Cloverleaf, Inc. (1937), Item Co. v. National Dyers & Cleaners, Ltd. (1930)
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWulbern v. Drake (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on In re First Nat. Bank of Belle Fourche · Alberto Armstrong v. Eduardo Fernandez · In re New York & W. Water Co. · Friday v. Hall & Kaul Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may have been engaged in doing two distinct kinds of business. But unless this corporation was ‘engaged principally’ in mercantile pursuits' it was not amenable to the act.””
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.