Flint v. Stone Tracy Co.’s Empirical Analysis
220 U.S. 107 · 1911
Citation profile
532 federal appellate · 254 district · 418 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,040 later decisions (248 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985), Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad (1916)
532 federal appellate · 254 district · 418 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Boyd v. United States · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Gibbons v. Ogden · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Mattox v. United States
Cited together with Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Von Baumbach v. Sargent Land Co. · McCoach v. Minehill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad · Zonne v. Minneapolis Syndicate · Knowlton v. Moore
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 2,040 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court adopted with approval the definition, judicially approved in other cases, which included within the comprehensive term ‘business’ ‘that which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit.’ ””
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The true distinction is between the attempted taxation of those operations of the States essential to the execution of its governmental functions, and which the State can only do itself, and those activities which are of a private character. The former, the United States may not interfere with by taxing the agencies of the State in carrying out its purposes; the latter, although regulated by the State, and exercising delegated authority, such as the right of eminent domain, are not removed from the field of legitimate Federal taxation.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“germane to the subject-matter of the bill”
9 later decisions 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.