Keokee Consolidated Coke Co. v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
234 U.S. 224 · 1914
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 239 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937), Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934)
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Joseph Patsone v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Central Lumber Company v. State of South Dakota
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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is more pressed that the act discriminates unconstitutionally against certain classes. But while there are differences of opinion as to the degree and kind of discrimination permitted by the 14th Amendment, it is established by repeated decisions that a statute aimed at what is deemed an evil, and hitting it presumably where experience shows it to be most felt, is not to be upset by thinking up and enumerating other instances to which it might have been applied equally well, so far as the court can see. That is for the legislature to judge unless the case is very clear.”
6 later decisions 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.