Reid v. Colorado’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 11 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), United States v. Carolene Products Co. (1938)
13 federal appellate · 11 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 14 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 · Railroad Company v. Husen · Ed Reid v. People of the State of Colorado · Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd · Missouri Ry Co v. Haber
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It should never be held that Congress intends to supersede or by its legislation suspend the exercise of the police powers of the States, even when it may do so, unless its purpose to effect that result is clearly manifested. This court has said — and the principle has often been reaffirmed — that in the application of this principle of supremacy of an act of Congress in a case where the State law is but the exercise of a reserved power, the repugnance or conflict should be direct and positive, so that the two acts could not be reconciled or consistently stand together.” ( 187 U. S., at page 148 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] State may not, by its police regulations, whatever their object, unnecessarily burden . . . interstate commerce.”
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.