Carl Eberle v. People of the State of Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 700 · 1914
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Hamilton v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. (1919), Jacob Ruppert v. Caffey (1920)
10 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Kidd v. Pearson · Eubank v. City of Richmond · Beer Company v. Massachusetts
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the other hand, in the case at bar the original local option law of 1889 had been held to be constitional as a whole, and its validity could not be impaired by the subsequent adoption of what were in form amendments but, in legal effect, were mere nullities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Lankton
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.