Effie Hoke v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Gonzales v. Oregon (2006), National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012)
3 federal appellate · 17 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Gloucester Ferry Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Ed Reid v. People of the State of Colorado · Hipolite Egg Company v. United States · Charles F. Champion, Appt. v. John C. Ames, United States Marshal · Westmoreland 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Commerce among the states ... consists of intercourse and traffic between their citizens, and includes the transportation of persons and property. There may be, therefore, a movement of persons as well as of property; that is, a person may move or be moved in interstate commerce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * This is the aim of the law expressed in broad generalization; and motives are made of determining consequence. Motives executed by actions may make it the concern of Government to exert its powers. Right purpose and fair trading need no restrictive regulation, but let them be transgressed and penalties and prohibitions must be applied. * •» * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The power of Congress under the commerce clause of the Constitution is the ultimate determining question. If the statute be a valid exercise of that power, how it may affect persons or states is not material to be considered. It is the supreme law of the land, and persons and states are subject to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. State
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.