International Text-Book Company v. Aaron T Pigg’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 district · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Tauza v. . Susquehanna Coal Co. (1917), Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Wallace (1912)
3 federal appellate · 11 district · 163 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Poindexter v. Greenhow · Crutcher v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Chambers v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Importation into one state from another is the indispensable element, the test of interstate commerce.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * How far a corporation of one state is entitled to claim in another state, where it is doing business, equality of treatment with individual citizens in respect of the right to sue and defend in the courts, is a question which the exigencies of this case do not require to be definitely decided. * * *”
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.