Coyle v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
221 U.S. 559 · 1911
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 49 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 444 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923)
100 federal appellate · 49 district · 109 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Thompson v. State of Utah · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · Van Brocklin v. Anderson · Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States
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 444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was and is a union of States, equal in power, dignity and authority, each competent to exert that residuum of sovereignty not delegated to the United States by the Constitution itself”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the constitutional equality of the States is essential to the harmonious operation of the scheme upon which the Republic was organized.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would not operate to restrict the State's legislative power in respect of any matter which was not plainly within the regulating power of Congress.”
6 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.