Lewis Publishing Co. v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 288 · 1913
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 19 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cantwell v. State of Connecticut (1940), Dennis v. United States (1951)
65 federal appellate · 19 district · 25 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.
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Gibbons v. Ogden · Field v. Clark · United States v. Reese · United States ex rel. Attorney General of the United States v. Delaware & Hudson 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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon the conceptions of Congress as to how far it was wise for the general welfare to give advantages to one class not enjoyed by another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the names not only of the apparent, but of what might prove to be the real and substantial owners of the publications,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to know whether matter which was published was what it purported to be or was in substance a paid advertisement.”
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.