State v. Mobley’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1996
13 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 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. State of West Virginia State of Ohio · Breard v. City of Alexandria La · SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it may be conceded that regulations designed to prevent frauds are embraced within the scope of the police power, nevertheless an express purpose to prevent possible frauds does not justify state legislation which really goes beyond the legitimate pale of regulation and interferes with the free flow of interstate commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.